India, often declared "the jewel in the crown" for the Empire, had won its independence just five years before. In 1952, British troops were fighting independence movements in Egypt and Kenya.

Aiyaz Husain, a historian with the Policy Studies Division of the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State and author of the recently published “Mapping the End of Empire ... maps and ...

Below is a map from 1901 showing the “British Empire” at one of its peak periods. The map doesn't convey the extent of British influence, especially, in Latin America. This is what historians ...

Many of the plants growing in the UK's soil today have their roots in colonialism and the British Empire — in fact there ... Brixton Botanical Map — a free map produced as part of Art on ...

At the outset of the First World War, the British Empire comprised 400 million people and its territorial arsenal was so vast that the sun never set on it. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen ... natural resources for their own financial gain. In the 1700s and 1800s, India experienced several devastating famines.

On one wall, we have a large map of the world produced for British schools in 1901, highlighting the large areas of the globe then under the British Empire and pinpointing the sites of great ...