A British general (left) and guest, are served in Bangalore, India, circa 19th century. A British general (left) and guest, are served in Bangalore, India, circa 19th century. Popperfoto-Getty ...

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.

GCSE; AQA; How Britain gained an empire - war Wars in Africa, late-19th and early-20th Century. Wars often resulted in the expansion of the British Empire. Fighting at sea has always been critical ...

It was merely the third stage of the transit arrangements across Egypt forged during the 19th century: to create effective communication with India, British entrepreneurs, helped by the state, ...

The British empire embarked on a successful and far-reaching anti-slavery campaign in the first half of the 19th century, one of the first global humanitarian efforts of its kind. Professor Maeve Ryan ...

But by the early 19th century, the British Empire had mutated into the world's first liberal empire. In the subsequent century, this empire clearly was a force for good in at least two respects.

The original investors in the East India Co.—the pre-eminent joint stock, from its founding in 1600 to well into the 19th century—were all merchants, with only one aristocrat among them ...