Great Britain and Ireland 1748-1754 -- Wide spread the empire -- The hub of the empire -- Social and antisocial forces -- Under the shadow of the Pelhams -- A government of laws -- The mountainous ...

During the Great Famine, over a million Irish people died and millions more fled while the British Empire stood by with limited aid and rigid policy. This video investigates why the English government ...

Sanghera sardonically proposes an “Empire Day 2.0”—an update to the pro-empire holiday that was part of the British calendar from 1902 to 1958—to promote awareness about an imperial past ...

Today the great British Empire is held together by virtually nothing save the Crown. While Britain is threatened at home by the march of dictators in Europe, the strength of that tie is vital.

The British empire was a racist, rapacious, and violent force that enslaved, exploited and erased peoples and cultures across the globe. We do not need to simplify the histories of those who ...

The British Empire has shown that the lessons of the fate of empires have not been lost. We have loosened the formal bonds of unity with the great dominions. . . .

Sunil Khilnani on Caroline Elkins’s “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. ... Was what Gallagher had called the great, wave-tossed ship of empire really so imperturbable, ...

The adage about the sun never setting on the empire took root in the 19th century as the British empire gained new territories across the globe. ... General Smuts, reckoned, despite his own faults, ...

Alan Cumming marked his 58th birthday by announcing he returned his OBE, a British honor he received in 2009, pointing to his "misgivings" over "the toxicity of empire" Skip to content PEOPLE ...

But the British elite came to view Russia as the great threat to the British Empire, the threat to India, the crown jewel of the empire. So much so that by 1840, Britain was rapidly Russophobic.