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 ...

Getty Images Visitors were able to take a trip ... By the time it closed, the British Empire Exhibition was reported to have lost £1.5m (the equivalent of £75m today). Compare that to the ...

"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 ...

Getty Images British-era buildings still dominate some ... and - in Britain - called Inglorious Empire. He felt compelled to write it, he says, because of the "moral urgency of explaining to ...

The history of RIBA is closely entwined with that of the British Empire, which expanded and consolidated its colonial grip around the world during the institute’s formative years in the 19th and early ...