What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? Support Provided By Learn More. Connect with us. ... • Asia and the British Empire ...

As we celebrate our 243rd Independence Day, and the resultant American empire that would come to dominate the modern world, it’s worth considering the 18th-century British Empire against which ...

The expansion of British imperial endeavours was accompanied by many years of warfare: over half of the 18th century saw the British at war, principally against France.

The founding principles that make this country great and that we celebrate today are exactly what drew the author here from the United Kingdom.

Growing up in late 20th-century Britain, my generation studied the history of the British Isles up to the 18th century, then leapt over the empire to focus on everything from the Russian ...

CNN’s Peter Bergen interviews Harvard University historian Caroline Elkins about the legacy of the British Empire and the future of countries in the Commonwealth, ... In the mid-18th century, ...

But by the early 19th century, the British Empire had mutated into the world's first liberal empire. In the subsequent century, this empire clearly was a force for good in at least two respects.

Then, in the 17th Century, Brits began wrapping doughs in cloths and boiling them to make more solid puddings. "The artisanal, working-class aristocracy – people like stonemasons, who earned a ...