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The entire history of the British Empire

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The truth about how the British Empire is taught in schools

William Dalrymple says that children ‘don’t learn’ about the British Empire at school. It is an ‘elephant in the ...

Scots are finally waking up to their central role in the British Empire

The King was made to endure a strange performance at the opening of the new session of the Scottish Parliament. Young actors ...

Head-on | America at 250: An empire showing its age

The United States, which celebrated 250 years of independence, is the inheritor of the British Empire – and all its imperial ...
BBC

The British Empire: An overview

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 ...
The New Criterion

Rewriting the history of the British Empire

In the new film of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, the writer and director Patricia Rozema includes an early scene that is not in the book. As Fanny Price departs from her family in Portsmouth to ...
THE WEEK

Brexit: what’s the British Empire got to do with it?

Michel Barnier is facing a fierce backlash after claimed that the UK’s vote to leave the European Union was a by-product of a misplaced “nostalgia for the past”. The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator said ...