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

The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon in Washington’s arsenal.

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

Liverpool played an important role in the growth of the British Empire and became the major port for the mass movement of people, e.g. slaves and emigrants from northern Europe to America. Liverpool ...