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 ...

"John was very hesitant to leave," she said. "There are men outside who are going to fight the might of the British empire; he wants to be a part of that. He sees himself as a leader, and he very ...

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 ...

There 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, ...

Books: C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (2004); Padraic Scanlan, Slave Empire: How Slavery Made Modern Britain (2020) David Olusoga, Black and ...

Below are all the relevant This Sceptred Isle: Empire episodes relating to Canada. These series include details the battle for Quebec with the French and the strengthening of Canada as a British ...