It spread from the Americas to include colonies in Africa, Asia and Australasia. During this time Britain lost and gained colonies. During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: No empire wins every fight, not even the vaunted British. For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and... Here’s What You ...

It is of little wonder that England’s queens were reluctant to own the world’s most famous and expensive diamond. The story of the Koh I Noor diamond, which sits in ...

In the British Empire, this was done using a lot of force and violence when local people did not cooperate with the merchants. who wanted to trade in Asia to get spices, cotton and indigo dye and ...

Dr Yanqiu Zheng is a historian of China in the world and is the Associate Director of Asia and Pacific Programs at St.

Why would Oxfam, a once-respected charity, publish a careless and ill thought-out piece of propaganda such as its latest ...

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Not enough people — venture capitalists included — are paying attention to biological threats and their countermeasures, Paul ...

Let us be clear: we are soon entering the Arctic Century, and its most defining feature will be Greenland’s meteoric rise, ...

Stephen Fry has been knighted in the U.K.’s annual New Year Honors list, while Carey Mulligan and Sarah Lancashire have been named commanders of the British Empire. Each year, the reigning ...

THE British Empire has reportedly drained India of $64.82 trillion and significantly stifled the country’s industrial growth ...