The French Revolution inspired reformers in Britain as much as it frightened the British Crown and landowning classes.

The 19th-century power struggle between the Sikhs, the British, and the Afghans shaped the political landscape of the time.

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 ...

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.

She depicts it as “more like Singapore on steroids than a Norway on valium.” The adage about the sun never setting on the empire took root in the 19th century as the British empire gained new ...

A British mountain guide has scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest mountain by a non-Sherpa guide.

Local and rural places were intertwined with violent global forces in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Grab a Copy Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism By Philip J. Stern Belknap Press 408 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our ...