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

British MP Bob Blackman has urged the UK government to formally apologise for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, calling it ...

As America get ready to mark its 250th birthday, we take a look at the time the British troops raided Bergen County towns.

This course will bring you back down to earth. It offers a unique and scholarly history of the complexity of the British Empire through its origins, rise, fall and legacy. No subject is off limit. Its ...

Despite her anarchistic origins, Westwood was fully accepted into the fold, being named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2006. Her designs are a favorite of Taylor Swift and ...

social and economic developments in mid-seventeenth-century Barbados are a vital part of the origin story of plantation slavery in the British empire and the United States and are also important for ...