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 ...

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 ... Europeans and peoples of South and Southeast Asia. Grade Level Therefore, the student is able to ...

Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern Britain ... as is the case for British colonies in South East Asia. 'More Britons are sure that colonies in Africa are worse ...

The history of RIBA is closely entwined with that of the British Empire, which expanded and consolidated its colonial grip around the world during the institute’s formative years in the 19th and early ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...