The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years.. The UK government confirmed ...

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide. ... The first successful colony was set up in 1607 in Jamestown, ...

That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius. While the apogee of the globe-spanning empire passed decades ago, this ...

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

How an act of simple defiance in a remote Himalayan outpost by Irish soldiers rocked the British Empire and inspired Indian Independence. In June 1920 members of the 1st Battalion Connaught ...

The first inhabitants were slaves brought over by the French in the 18th century, and the territory was handed over by France to the British as part of Mauritius in 1814.