Key themes include the transition from Empire to post-imperial Britain; economic development and distress; parliamentary and popular politics; social unrest and repression; nationalism, ...

Many of the case studies are Africa focused. It is based on the premise that to understand the significant impact of Britain’s empire and imperial experience you need to know your C19th. Within the ...

Watch Abdul Mohamud, a doctoral research fellow at University College London, and Robin Whitburn, a lecturer in History Education at University College London, examining Britain’s imperial past ...

Imperial Britain built an immense glass Crystal Palace to host 14,000 exhibitors from 40 countries. That marked the start of the Expo phenomenon that over the decades introduced the world to ...

The imperial couple visited Britain in June 2024 and Masako’s poem reflected on her memories of studying international relations at the University of Oxford graduate school after she entered the ...

Case studies include Britain and Zimbabwe; Idi Amin and Uganda; the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya; plus British rule in Somaliland and the fallout of the Somali civil war. The thread of racism, the ...