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 ...

Every year, the Queen honors hundreds of citizens with the Order of the British Empire. (A 2004 parliamentary committee recommended changing the name to the Order of British Excellence ...

The British Empire was once the largest empire in history, controlling vast territories across every continent. But how did the British manage to rule the world for centuries? This video explores the ...

Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head; 384 pages; £25 The British Empire was and is many things to many people: a civilising ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

Scots wrongly believe their country was a victim of the British Empire, a poll has found. A YouGov survey found that significantly more adults north of the border believed Scotland had been ...

More recently there has been a resurgence of apologias for empires in general and the British empire especially, from such writers as Niall Ferguson, Ian Morris, and several of the neoconservative ...

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