The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

There was a time when, to use the old adage, the sun did not set on the British Empire. It certainly didn ... The British footprint can still be found in places as varied as the Pacific and ...

The Roman Empire could not allow this revolt to succeed. Reinforcements quickly arrived and, under Paulinus’ command, met the British rebels in London. It was a savage battle, but the ...

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 ...

Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism. London: Allen Lane, 2014; Brown, Christopher Leslie. Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Chapel Hill, NC: Omohundro ...

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 ...

This painted mural can be found in the Henry Jarvis Memorial Hall of the RIBA’s headquarters ... surrounded by buildings connected with British imperial rule. This symbolism presents the RIBA as an ...