By the end of World War Two in 1945 it became clear that: Britain could no longer afford to maintain its empire British attitudes were changing, as more people began to believe that having an ...

In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s empire extended to every continent on Earth. As such, ...

Scots wrongly believe their country was a victim of the British Empire, a poll has found. A YouGov survey found that significantly more adults north of the border believed Scotland had been ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: No empire wins every fight, not even the vaunted British. For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and... Here’s What You ...