CNN’s Peter Bergen interviews Harvard University historian Caroline Elkins about the legacy of the British Empire and the future of countries in the Commonwealth, where the British monarch ...

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 ...

Second, and more important, the opposition to empire usually sought not the restoration of pre-imperial institutions but the empire's replacement by sovereign, exclusivist nation-states.

The British Empire isn’t ancient history; it was still a huge power in the 20th century. ... The second of which is that there were not records kept of her weekly meetings with prime ministers.

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide. ... For example, there was public opposition to the Second Boer War, ...

A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, ... During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), the British rounded up around a sixth of the Boer population ...

When the British and the Americans formally allied in December 1941, the British empire was unquestionably the senior partner in the relationship. It covered a fifth of the world’s landmass and ...

The British Empire largely decolonized, but the monarchy did not. During the last decades of her reign, the queen watched Britain — and the royal family — struggle to come to terms with its ...

In our home market the Empire producer will have a place second only to the home producer.” These early years of the second Elizabethan age coincided with the first moves on the continent towards what ...

The British Empire was most definitely over in 1947 or 1948—Suez is ... It’s not accidental that a lot of the nostalgia for British power is focussed on the Second World War and not on empire.