The British Empire began in the 1500s, under Elizabeth I’s rule. The empire grew to rule over 400 million people, having a significant impact on people in Britain and the colonies. British ...

believes a lack of education about black British history - and the British Empire - plays a part in racism in the UK and our discussions about it. The transatlantic slave trade and the US civil ...

Official portraits of Queen Mary and King George V in 1914. The British Empire was ruled by the Royal Family. It’s the same family that reigns today and the King at the time was Queen Elizabeth ...

Robert Jenrick has been accused of “an obnoxious distortion of history” after saying former British colonies should be ...

Seventy years since India gained its independence from the British Empire, the UK is seeking a closer trading relationship. But what do modern Indians think about the British? I have an intimate ...

Between 1869 and 1967, government-funded British charities sent nearly 100,000 British children to start new lives in the settler empire. This pioneering study tells the story of the rise and fall of ...

And so, with tracksuits on, geezer nicknames doled out, and knuckles dusted, Team Empire assembled a list of the very best British gangster movies ever made. From comedy classics, to bruising turn ...

putting the best British movies up against anywhere else in the world. Team Empire put our heads together, got into some spirited debates and ultimately came up with our choices. From Hitchcock to ...

Global Food History, p. 1. This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural ...

The word “empire” may be dropped British honours as part of reforms reportedly being considered by royal officials. Under the ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday ...

After the death of his wife, local newspaper writer Tony (Ricky Gervais) gets stuck on the second stage of grief: anger. With nothing left to live for, he decides to fill the lives of everyone ...