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 ...

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.

In 1912, the British Empire ruled over 412 million people, 23% of the global population at the time, and covered 14 million square miles, 24% of the Earth. READ MORE I'm Gen Z and would sign up to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.