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 ...

A map of countries where an overseas volunteer organisation operates is—what else?—a throwback to the British Empire’s pink map.

If the BBC's Empire takes the aggressive approach to therapy, demanding that the patient owns up to his blind spots, Make Bradford British goes for a more touchy-feely, group-therapy approach.

Despite its incredible power and wealth, the British Empire formally broke itself up in the mid to late 1900s. But what if the British Empire was a country today?

A detailed map of British Petroleum's empire reveals the company's extensive global reach and influence in the energy sector.

The toy, which doubles as an ad for the encyclopedia, takes the old saying “The sun never sets on the British empire” and represents it physically, through the medium of a spinning wheel.

This big volume on "the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power" is really two books in one. The first (superbly illustrated) is a history of the British Empire and ...

Historians have mapped the trading routes of medieval shipping which helped “sow the seeds of the British maritime empire”. More than 50,000 ship movements from 600 ports around England, Wales ...