If you wander through Glasgow Green, you'll encounter the Doulton fountain, a gaudy terracotta tribute to empire that ...
The United Kingdom could say goodbye to 5.3 million Scots. — -- If Scots vote for independence from the United Kingdom Thursday, the monarchy would lose not only the land of Scotch but about 5.3 ...
The empire on which the sun never sets' is the most famous description of the British Empire — even though the phrase was invented to describe the sprawling reach of Spain's territory in the 16th ...
The Attorney General has slammed left-wing people for being 'ashamed' of Britain's colonial past and said she was 'proud' of the British Empire. Suella Braverman, whose parents are from Mauritius and ...
One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...
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 ...
Police have reported that more than 600 artifacts relating to the British Empire and Commonwealth have been stolen from ...