Dive into the fascinating world of the largest empires in history, exploring how they grew, ruled, and eventually declined.

Madhavan's Kesari Chapter 2 Movie Review: An eye-opener for Indians on Shankaran Nair, the man who shook the British Empire Anurag Kashyap apologises ... Pooja Hegde justifies the role by displaying ...

It killed 900,000 combatants; introduced artillery and modern war correspondents to conflict zones; strengthened the British Empire ... Nightingale’s pioneering graph documented a stunning ...

It use likely stemmed from the South Sea Bubble, a complicated financial scandal in which British officials inflated the value of publicly-owned shares invested in the government’s empire ...

Did you know that “talking postcards” were once a thing? Back in the 1940s and 50s, tourists in the U.S. might pop into a coin-operated Voice-O-Graph booth to record themselves speaking about ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. “The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the ...

His bar graphs, pie charts, and line graphs remain essential tools ... He used it to depict the share of different territories in the Turkish Empire across continents. World's first pie chart, by ...

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 ...

The Truth About Empire: Real Stories of British Colonialism; By Alan Lester Hurst; 304 pp., 34.95 Pennycuick, a British Indian Army engineer, achieved deification for building the Mullaperiyar Dam ...

During the nearly two-century-long rule over India between 1757 and 1947, the British Empire exploited the country's resources, wealth, and people. The impact of colonial rule is felt to this day.

The sun is setting — literally, this time — on the British Empire. That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius.

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 ...