After losing the 13 colonies Britain did not want its empire to shrink again, and decided to make it even bigger. Ruling India was economically very beneficial for Britain, because the British ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

The Attorney General has described “almost every element” of the British Empire ... of the empire was racist and that all children should be made to learn about its “legacy of violence”.