In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...

It spread from the Americas to include colonies in Africa, Asia and Australasia. During this time Britain lost and gained colonies. During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in ...

There is no one from Africa at the table ... the Berlin Conference should be known as the second stage in the British Empire, as Britain gained 20 new colonies. It became one of the most powerful ...

It offers a unique and scholarly history of the complexity of the British Empire through its origins, rise, fall and legacy. No subject is off limit. Its primary focus is on understanding the ...

Across Africa, young people benefit from formal education and training programmes from the British Council, which lead to lives filled with opportunity. See how the British Council supports ...

Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern Britain ... More Britons are sure that colonies in ...

AT the fifty-fourth meeting of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign held on April 10, it was announced that a grant at the rate of £350 a year for the year 1935 has been made ...

Travels in West Africa (National Geographic adventure classics, 2002 edn) J G Farrell, The Siege of Krishapur 1857 (Pheonix Paperback, 2002 edn) C20th: Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial ...

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a UK honours system that ... first, receiving South Africa's national honour, the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver (OIS), for excellent contributions ...