There was a time when, to use the old adage, the sun did not set on the British Empire. It certainly didn ... at the Battle ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

Understanding the British Empire (CUP, 2010); Ronald Hyam, Britain's Imperial Century, 1815 to 1914 (CUP latest edn); John Newsinger, The blood never dried: A people’s history of the British Empire ...

Technically speaking, however, sunlight continued to shine on at least one portion of British-occupied land for about another six months. The primary holdout? A section of the British Antarctic ...

They were removed between 1801 and 1815 by Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire, which occupied Greece then. Elgin claimed an Ottoman leader granted permission for their ...

The monument was constructed in 1834, a years after slavery was abolished across the British Empire. The display includes letters from the early American colonist John Winthrop, organisers says.