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 much of the world ...

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 ...

Bagchi’s rich repository of the city’s documentation through the 18th and 19th ... didn’t have maps, but conducted detailed surveys to sustain the empire. Hence, texts like Abul Fazl’s Ain-i-Akbari ...

When the 13 colonies of North America declared their independence from the British Crown ... the fastest day's sailing recorded during the 18th Century. We need your consent to load this rte ...

My book is about the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire in Jamaica, which was Britain’s most profitable colony in the Americas. It happened in 1760 and went on into 1761.