British History in-depth

Britain has been shaped by turmoil between its nations, and tension between state and church. But centuries of conflict would ...
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Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites. All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the ...
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What really ended the British Empire after centuries of global power

This video explores how the British Empire began to unravel after World War II, when financial collapse, rising independence ...
The National Interest

Britain’s Empire of Shards

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ruled a quarter of the earth’s landmass, has seen its overseas empire reduced ...
The American Spectator

Never Had It So Bad: The Decline of the Great British Empire

It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton as MP for the constituency of bucolic Mid ...
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History Is Marked By Powerful Global Empires — But Which One Was The Largest?

Indeed, at its peak, the British Empire was by far the largest empire in history. By the 1920s, it controlled more than 13.7 ...
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 ...
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10 priceless cultural artefacts stolen by the British Empire

The British Empire, at its height, was one of the largest and most powerful empires in history, controlling vast territories and people across the globe. During its colonial rule, many cultural ...