Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide.

British art, literature couldn’t get enough of Tipu Sultan in 1700s. Oriental exoticism ruled Story by Vikram Sampath • 1d ...

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

This tension,between an empire of slavery and an empire of freedom, is the puzzle at the heart of this course. Using primary and secondary sources, this course explores the interconnected histories of ...

As he stresses throughout this riveting book, the British spread the rule of law but institutionalised legal inequality; propagated racism but also witnessed the spread of anti-racism; destroyed ...

The sun is setting — literally, this time — on the British Empire. That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius.

The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month Two new books examine the history and consequences of colonialism ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday they are handing over its control of the Chagos Islands in the Indian ...