After losing the 13 colonies Britain did not want its empire to shrink again ... and the region had suffered from famine before British rule, but British policies often made the situation worse.

Some initially criticized Elkins’ findings as exaggerated, but they were vindicated years later after Kenyan torture ... A History of the British Empire.” I spoke to Elkins last week about ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War ... required firm instruction before they could be awarded their liberties.) Indeed, the main reason that the British Empire ...

Decades after the end of the British Empire, which lasted from the 17th ... Last month, however, King Charles, who, like his mother before him, also heads the so-called Commonwealth, which ...

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 ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 ... the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius after taking it over and transforming the land into a ...