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A BRITISH EMPIRE FLAG.; A Design Is Preparing for a New Ensign to Give the Colonies Representation. Share full article. From The London Express. Feb. 9, 1902; ...
When colonists of the British Empire wanted to irritate the mother country, they would take an imperial flag and put their own touch to it – thus, defacing it. Colonists upset about the Stamp… ...
Most of the Commonwealth's 56 member nations are former colonies of the British Empire. In some countries, many view King Charles' coronation as an occasion to recall colonialism’s painful and ...
The British, so the cliché goes, are a repressed lot. Faced with an awkward subject, they avoid it, change the subject, make tea. Nowhere is this more so than with the topic of the British Empire.
The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. Was this part of the problem? Sunil Khilnani on Caroline Elkins’s “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British ...
The end of the British Empire saw the Union flag lowered in ceremonies around the world - but the so-called "wind of change" continues to blow, observes David Cannadine in his Point of View column ...