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

By the end of World War Two in 1945 it became clear that: Britain could no longer afford to maintain its empire British attitudes were changing, as more people began to believe that having an ...

Roosevelt was determined to ensure that the war’s end also heralded the end of the British Empire. Roosevelt’s concern was that empires create their own imperatives and are incompatible with peace and ...