After losing the 13 colonies Britain did not want its empire to shrink again, and decided to make it even bigger. Ruling India was economically very beneficial for Britain, because the British ...

Technically speaking, however, sunlight continued to shine on at least one portion of British-occupied land for about another six months. The primary holdout? A section of the British Antarctic ...

T here was a time when, to use the old adage, the sun did not set on the British Empire. It certainly didn’t back in 1920, when this globe-straddling entity reached its territorial apex – a ...