and manuscripts relating to British colonial architecture. In these pages, we unpack some of the links to empire in our building and collections. In this film, architect, artist and educator Giles ...

The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century by R.I Marshall (Oxford University Press, 1998) Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 (New Studies in Economic ...

It would become the breadbasket of the British Empire. He wanted the unprocessed wheat to be shipped east where eastern manufacturers would process the grain to be shipped to England and the rest ...

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 ...

Two British parachutists jumped off the building ... the lovers’ holiday remains the only day to get married at the Empire State Building. The view from the top has been the backdrop for ...

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 chart below shows the geographic size of the British Empire going back to 1860," writes Dalio. "Note how it rose from 1860 until 1920, flatted out until 1950 and then collapsed. By comparing ...

The Empire podcast series is focusing on Ireland and how it became the laboratory of imperial ventures from plantation to partition. Kim Bielenberg talks to its two hosts John Nicholson ...