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Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. When World War Two broke out in September 1939, Britain called upon countries from across the British Empire for help.

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 ...

The Commonwealth was created as the sun started to set on the British Empire in the years after World War II. While some Commonwealth members remain monarchies with His Majesty as head of state ...

The original inscription, in blue with gilt capitals, was composed by Rudyard Kipling and read: To The Glory of God And to the memory of One Million Dead of the British Empire who fell in the Great ...

A Carluke veteran shared his memories of his grandfathers' World War II service as the 80th anniversary of VE Day approaches.