The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...

I had studied the British Empire at university but had never really ... of the brutal colonial history that I learned about from books, a reckoning felt inevitable. When I began writing this ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

To the British, India served as the jewel of the British Empire. The coffers of Britain overflowed with wealth extracted from the subcontinent. The initial acquisition of India under the British ...