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 ...

During the heyday of the British empire, thousands of women from India and other parts of Asia were brought to London to look after young children - but many of these nannies were later abandoned ...

Although Europeans were present in South Asia as traders from the beginning of the seventeenth ... and India were formed out of the British empire in India; Nepal was never integrated into this empire ...

As the British Empire expanded through the long 19 th century ... at Whitehall to oversee the administration of colonies from the Middle East to South Asia, becoming one of the most complex paper ...

Excerpted with permission from South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law, Faisal Chaudhry, Oxford University Press.

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday ...

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 ...