The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the imperative and importance of studying the British ...

Only a minority accept that Scotland partnered England to derive its historical wealth from slavery and colonies ...

These were the 12 biggest empires (by area) ever put together, ranging from vast confederations on the Asian steppes to ...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

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 ...

The wealth the British extracted from India 'would be enough to carpet the surface area of London in British pound 50 notes almost four times over,' said the report ...