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 ...

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. . . .

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.

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 ...

The English, and then the British, would go on to conquer many more nations in the subsequent centuries, using military and economic might to establish a global empire.

In his new book Empireland, Sathnam Sanghera examines how the British Empire's pieties and fictions persist to this day.

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 ...

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.

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" ...