The launch of the book, Making Empire, was jointly organised by the Embassy of Ireland and the British High Commission – an ...

David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the ...

The author of the Horrible Histories series has admitted he hates the British Empire “with a passion”. Terry Deary, who has ...

Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...

Global Food History, p. 1. This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

This course will bring you back down to earth. It offers a unique and scholarly history of the complexity of the British Empire through its origins, rise, fall and legacy. No subject is off limit. Its ...

Natural History Museum and the Royal Albert Hall. London School of Architecture/Uni of Portsmouth Neal Shasore and Deborah Sugg Ryan have both written about the British Empire Exhibition Despite ...