Among its aims, the institute sought to promote British architecture both at home and throughout the British Empire. Alongside other 19th century Royal Charter bodies, it attempted to legitimise ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa ... owning in 1807 and slave trading in 1834 throughout the British Empire proved to be two important turning points.

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose interests and scholarship focus on the literary, cultural, and political histories of modern Britain ...

During the 19th century the British fought minor wars in Africa to secure British control of colonial territories. These included the: Ashanti Wars in West Africa. Matabele Wars in South Africa.

T he British Empire and the Russian Empire engaged in intense competition for control over Central Asia for most of the 19th century. The Great Game, a term for the British plan to safeguard its ...

To the British, India served as the jewel of the British Empire. The coffers of Britain overflowed with wealth extracted from the subcontinent. The initial acquisition of India under the British ...

Understanding the British Empire (CUP, 2010); Ronald Hyam, Britain's Imperial Century, 1815 to 1914 (CUP latest edn); John Newsinger, The blood never dried: A people’s history of the British Empire ...