The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years.. The UK government confirmed ...

CNN’s Peter Bergen interviews Harvard University historian Caroline Elkins about the legacy of the British Empire and the future of countries in the Commonwealth, where the British monarch ...

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide. ... The first successful colony was set up in 1607 in Jamestown, ...

The first British Empire. 15 November 2007 • 12:01am . Christopher Clark reviews Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783 by Brendan Simms.

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

For more than 700 years, the Irish lived under and alongside the English, and later British, Empire. Being the first colony, Ireland was where the British imperial project and its racist policies ...

Of the 71 countries around the world in which same-sex sexual relations are illegal, it’s no coincidence that more than half are former British colonies or protectorates.

CNN’s Peter Bergen interviews Harvard University historian Caroline Elkins about the legacy of the British Empire and the future of countries in the Commonwealth, where the British monarch ...