My father, who was born in 1919, visited the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley as "birthday treat" on 1st May. While its official aim, "to stimulate trade, strengthen bonds that bind mother ...

A Lipton's souvenir brass tea caddy from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924. It was opened by King George V on St George's Day, 23 April. Its official aim was "to stimulate trade, strengthen ...

When asked whether public education on the history of the British Empire is essential for understanding ... in all of that, there is no exhibition on the transatlantic trade in enslaved African ...

The exhibition stood for everything that W. E. Gladstone, again her prime minister, disliked about British colonial involvement ... it was a tactile introduction to the Empire that she would ...

An exhibition on British colonialism and empire hosted by the British Museum may come as a surprise. But artist Hew Locke is not afraid to directly address the core of the matter. Throughout the ...