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

and the phrase ‘the sun never sets on the British Empire’ is no longer true. But we will have to wait until next year to see ...

History, history is not for public schools, it is for those that can afford private education, they know best. That is why rich men make excellent leaders, not to mention really good fairy tale ...

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger ...

Last September, the last blast furnace at Port Talbot, in South Wales, flickered out, ending centuries of British ‘virgin’ steel-making that once fuelled the rise of the world’s greatest ...

You've no doubt heard the saying, "The sun never sets on the British Empire." This was true, until the 1920s when colonialism fell out of favor and the Brits lost a good number of their territories.