The British colonization of Africa reshaped an entire continent - politically, economically, and culturally. In this video, I ...

The setting came right out of the great days of the British Empire. In the gilded splendor of Lancaster House, only a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace, sat Moslems in silk turbans, Arabs ...

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide. ... The expansion of the British Empire in Africa; Life in the British Empire.

But the reality of empire was rather more complex and substantially less benign. The legacy of the British empire is more than a balance sheet of debits and credits.. My own research has focused on ...

Until my arrival at Bulawayo Airport, the British Empire had been for me principally a philatelic phenomenon. When I was young, Britain’s still-astonishing assortment of far-flung territories—from ...

At its height, the British Empire extended over something like a third of the world, but was already in recession when the Queen came to the throne.

N athaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.

Elizabeth II did not found the British empire. Nor did she preside over its extension to Southern Africa. It was her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria , who did so.

Such is the domestic wreckage of empire, and it is everywhere in Africa, just as the undeniable brutalities inflicted by British colonial authorities—such as the violent crackdown on the Mau Mau ...