The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen ... and its former colonies were given to other European countries through the Treaty of Versailles. In the mid-1900s, Britain’s situation ...

He was a king who viewed the empire through the prism of his stamp collection. Of the 56 countries that made up the British Empire 100 years ago, its sovereign King George V visited just one of them.

Homelessness is a phenomenon that popular culture has often attributed to poorer countries ... List According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, the former ...