With the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom, the Kandyan Convention, ceremonially signed on March 10, 1815, completed the annexation ...

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The Chagos Islands, officially known as the “British Indian Ocean Territory,” are one of the last vestiges of the British Empire ... Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815. The islands were administered ...

BRITAIN is in “no position” to fight a war and the government “must” consider conscription now, former UK defence chiefs have warned. Ex-Nato officers told The Sun that the ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

In this series, podcast presenters Datshiane Navanayagam and Katie Charlwood guide you through the British Empire. Check out more podcasts for GCSE History. Making notes as you listen to the ...

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Laurence Brown of Lost in the Pond explained how a number of states in the United States have kept names that originated in ...

HELLO! brings you the latest news, photos and exclusives from the British Royal Family as they happen. The British royals are well-known for their charity work and public support of numerous ...

1768 was a triumphant and a turbulent year for the British Empire.