David Beckham has been knighted for his services to sport and to charity, having partnered with UNICEF. He also played a pivotal role in London being awarded the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

The Army's Golden Arrow Division has opened the historic Ferozepur Fort to the public after two centuries, aiming to boost heritage tourism and reconn ...

Trusted by the British for their bravery and loyalty ... F1 GP in a row The Airport That Doesn’t Appear on Google Maps—But Still Operates ...

An astonishing map shows every country ... and cultural identity worldwide into an “empire on which the sun never sets.” The empire began its descent after World War 2. Over the next century ...

An empire is a single state that contains a variety ... as it became after the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707, the British — one.

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

Those lessons beckon today for Britain, and America, too. In the end, the empire — “the red on the map” — was a symbol, not the basis, of British influence. The home islands themselves, it could be ...

The British Empire was truly massive during its height. At one point in time, the Empire comprised 23% of the world's total population and 24% of the world's total land area. It's for this reason ...

An incredible map shows every country ... It was the largest empire in history and the main global power, referred to as Pax Britannica. In 1912, the British Empire held sway over 412 million ...

Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, but publishing books about it is in vogue. A wave of titles has hit ...