Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide. ... In the 1700s and 1800s, India experienced several devastating famines.

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In Barbados, Sanghera shows how the island was stripped of its indigenous people, who had lived there for 2,500 years — part of a total native Caribbean population that numbered some 3mn in 1700 ...

Black British historian Steve Martin welcomes the idea of teaching children about the empire. But all too often it is told only from the "white perspective", he says. "I remember being taught this at ...

T he British Empire was and is many things to many people: a civilising endeavour, a bringer of peace, an exploitative force or a project based on white supremacy.

“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.