Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. “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 ...

It was the epicentre of a vast empire once and was called ‘the empire on which the sun never sets.’ That was in the 18th & ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

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 strategic alloy, once seen as the backbone of its supremacy, spurred the meteoric rise of a coloniser, the British Empire, that at its peak in 1920 stretched over 26 per cent of the earth’s ...