The years from 1812 to 1821 mark the dramatic decline and eventual fall of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire. This video explores ...

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 ...

Technology underpinned British Empire, from tentative start in 7th century to global dominance in 18th and 19th centuries and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Egypt’s 18th dynasty rose to the start of the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1077 BCE) and was the zenith of Egyptian international power. Many of ancient Egypt’s most notable characters appear during this ...

The English had struggled in the previous century over ... against the nature of British government. Rather they objected to their changing place within the British Empire. The revolutionary ...

Archeologists in St. Augustine, Florida have discovered evidence of an 18th-century British fort ... historical maps show that seven British redouts were built when the British had administrative ...

A book about 18th-century printmaking — and that of the early 19th century, something not quite captured in the title — might not strike you as timely. But as Chadwick points out, the British ...

The Truth About Empire: Real Stories ... she can manage is to point to an 18th-century African monarch abolishing the slave trade as evidence that the British do not deserve any plaudits for ...