Introduction : British identities, indigenous peoples and the empire / Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern -- The British and indigenous peoples, 1760-1860 : power, perception and identity / C.A. Bayly -- ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire “Queen Elizabeth was a life ...

Though the British Empire officially dissolved decades ago, its legacy is still woven into the fabric of many nations across the globe. From language and law to education systems and infrastructure, ...

These 22 countries have never been ruled over by Britishers. British museums have authentic Indian weapons, clothes of kings ...

Those of us who went to school before our past was rewritten as a catalog of the White Man’s crimes were taught that empire—with all its vices and virtues—was built by monarchs and statesmen ...

Introduction : British identities, indigenous peoples and the empire / Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern -- The British and indigenous peoples, 1760-1860 : power, perception and identity / C.A. Bayly -- ...