The book’s organising principle is a day—September 29th 1923—when the British Empire reached its maximum territorial extent. The portrait is achieved with a wide-angle lens, but the choice ...

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide.

Throughout its history, the British Empire has taken countless artifacts from its colonies and other countries. Governments and activists have since called for the repatriation of these cultural ...

The British, so the cliché goes, are a repressed lot. Faced with an awkward subject, they avoid it, change the subject, make tea. Nowhere is this more so than with the topic of the British Empire.

When the British Empire reached its peak, it was already falling apart Matthew Parker’s brilliant new book One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire uses one day in September 1923 to explore the empire ...

10 cultural artifacts the British Empire took from other nations, from the Benin Bronzes to the Koh-i-Noor diamond Yoonji Han Updated Sun, January 1, 2023 at 6:24 PM UTC ...