The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...

We can all agree on the moral, physical and personal wrongs of slavery and wish that it had never occurred, whether in the British empire or anywhere else. But to speak of imperial history in ...

and if the King visited Rome without going to the Vatican it would certainly be an act of discourtesy to millions of his loyal subjects all over the Empire.” There is, however, a very strong ...

It was at the heart of the British Empire – when the monarchy was executive – on which the sun never set. So vast was the empire that America was part of it. Not to mention that most of the so ...

The history of RIBA is closely entwined with that of the British Empire, which expanded and consolidated its colonial grip around the world during the institute’s formative years in the 19th and early ...