When Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne in 1952, the British Empire had recently lost the proverbial "Jewel in the Crown," India, and the subcontinent was still reeling from the bloodshed of ...

The Manchester Museum in England was founded at the pinnacle of the British Empire. Now it is embracing the city’s South Asian population and reassessing the colonial past.

British Rule Although Europeans were present in South Asia as traders from the beginning of the seventeenth century, ... and India were formed out of the British empire in India; Nepal was never ...

Queen Elizabeth II 'represents the end of the British empire and the transition of former colonies into independent states' Deutsche Welle In spite of their difficult colonial past, India and Pakistan ...

An excerpt from ‘South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law’, by Faisal Chaudhry.

In Southeast Asia, the British Empire launched counterinsurgency movements in the 1950s and 1960s across Vietnam, Myanmar, Burma and Malaya, a British colony of several states on the Malay ...

The Kohinoor, which means “Mountain of Light,” was originally about 186 carats, and while its exact origins are unknown, it was most likely discovered in South India in the 13th century ...

Elizabeth II did not found the British empire. Nor did she preside over its extension to Southern Africa. It was her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria , who did so.

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide.

“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.