David Olusoga tells the story of the beginnings of the British Empire under Elizabeth I. David Olusoga tells the story of the British Empire from its origins under Elizabeth I to the establishment of ...

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David Olusoga reveals how the British Empire fell apart. David Olusoga reveals how the Empire reached its maximum size after the First World War, but within a generation had begun to collapse. David ...

Australian TV host Rowan Dean has called for a new British Empire following the death of the Queen in a clip that has gone viral. Speaking on Sky News Australia, Dean's guest, James Morrow, also ...

The sun is setting — literally, this time — on the British Empire. That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius.

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 ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...