It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, ...

Great Britain, Germany ... Official portraits of Queen Mary and King George V in 1914. The British Empire was ruled by the Royal Family. It’s the same family that reigns today and the King ...

British Colonies sent soldiers from five different ... Eventually, in 1947, it did gain independence from Great Britain. Commanding officers of the Rhodesian volunteers with their troops.

Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern Britain should be ashamed of, a new poll suggests. A third of adults (33 per cent) believe that the UK's colonial period in ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

A new poll conducted by YouGov has revealed Scottish attitudes to the British Empire, with Scots more likely to see the ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...

Now, Oxfam has put out a staggering number based on its research. The British empire, according to Oxfam, extracted as much as $64.82 trillion (in today’s money) from India between 1765 and 1900 ...