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 ... of these cultural treasures to their country of origin, which is modern-day Nigeria. As of 2022, museums and institutions in Britain ...

Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern Britain should be ashamed of, a new poll suggests. A third of adults (33 per cent) believe that the UK's colonial period in ...

Slave Empire: How Slavery Made Modern Britain (2020) David Olusoga, Black and British: A forgotten History (2016) ; John Darwin, The British Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World ...

He is working on a book, Inventing Direct Rule, on the significance of law and race in the making of "direct rule" in the modern British Empire. Focusing on the reconstitution of Jamaica and the ...