In the 18th century, Britain had a well-established empire of colonies ... in British America. The British government fought a number of wars to protect and expand these colonies, and as a result ...

The British Empire began in the 1500s ... most European countries were looking to expand their control in Africa. We can still see the impact of the Scramble for Africa today.

“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.

The British Empire is a proxy for the West. The phrase “colonialism and slavery” is often used to sum it up, as if the two things were identical. And it is common to hear British colonialism ...

But the Order of the British Empire has nothing to do with slavery ... charity and public service, the king expanded it more widely. In effect, he was attempting to democratise the honours ...

The history of RIBA is closely entwined with that of the British Empire, which expanded and consolidated its colonial grip around the world during the institute’s formative years in the 19th and early ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...