However some historians now suggest that the death toll may ... in an attempt to gain independence from the British Empire. Then, in 1947, following years of campaigning, British India was ...

The British Empire was once the largest empire in history, controlling vast territories across every continent. But how did the British manage to rule the world for centuries? This video explores the ...

Some initially criticized Elkins’ findings as exaggerated, but they were vindicated years later after Kenyan torture victims sued the British ... in the former empire and now current ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so much of the world ...

People from all over Scotland were participants in and drivers of the British Empire, both at home and overseas, and the profits of these ventures helped to build the cities, towns, villages ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War ... As the century turns, Tudor is battling Boers on the veldt; then it’s back to India, and on to occupied Egypt.

"Now the [British] poor could afford sugar ... "Representatives of different empire countries then stepped forward to give the pudding a symbolic stir." And the EMB's efforts were ramped up ...

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase ... a major chapter in world history has just now come to a close. As first highlighted last year on Reddit, the spring ...

Stephen Fry has been knighted in the U.K.’s annual New Year Honors list, while Carey Mulligan and Sarah Lancashire have been named commanders of the British Empire. Each year, the reigning ...