The Express is able to announce that the King has received with favor the suggestion that a new flag was needed to keep pace with the growing empire, and that a finished design for the same will ...

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide.

By the 1700s, discontent had boiled over. Britain taxed the colonies for sugar, tea and alcohol. American anger rose with ...

Fast on the heels of the recent “No Kings” protests against President Trump comes an odd suggestion that Americans would be ...

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

The Truth About Empire promises to be “a shield against the assault on historical truth.” Its authors might do well to visit Col. Pennycuick’s memorial at Camberley before it, too, is toppled.

Oliver Bearman will head into his first home race in Formula 1 with a 10-place grid penalty after crashing on his way into ...

During Queen Elizabeth II's 70-year reign, she saw the rapid decline of the British Empire and was monarch to 15 of the 56 member states of the Commonwealth.

"It drives me nuts that we educate people that the empire was bad," Australian TV host Rowan Dean said. "I am all for it, let's start a new movement. Bring back the British Empire." ...

David McKenna (Union flag a symbol of oppression - Letters, April 10) thinks I talk ludicrous twaddle and I'm sure many others do too. However, to patriotic people the flag of a nation represents ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday they are handing over its control of the Chagos Islands in the Indian ...

Comedian Al Murray is holding forth about the importance of the British Empire in people’s morning routines. “There are people who get up in the morning and brush their teeth and are annoyed ...