The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the ...

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 ...

The British Empire is a proxy for the West. The phrase “colonialism and slavery” is often used to sum it up, as if the two things were identical. And it is common to hear British colonialism ...