Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide. ... In the 1700s and 1800s, India experienced several devastating famines.

By the 1700s, discontent had boiled over. Britain taxed the colonies for sugar, tea and alcohol. American anger rose with ...

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In Barbados, Sanghera shows how the island was stripped of its indigenous people, who had lived there for 2,500 years — part of a total native Caribbean population that numbered some 3mn in 1700 ...

Those lessons beckon today for Britain, and America, too. In the end, the empire — “the red on the map” — was a symbol, not the basis, of British influence. The home islands themselves, it could be ...

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

T he British Empire was and is many things to many people: a civilising endeavour, a bringer of peace, an exploitative force or a project based on white supremacy.

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...