Forgotten heroes of the First World War: Remarkable photos show Gurkha, Indian and Sikh soldiers fighting for the British Empire. Nearly 1.5 million Indian soldiers fought for the British Empire ...

The British, so the cliché goes, are a repressed lot. Faced with an awkward subject, they avoid it, change the subject, make tea. Nowhere is this more so than with the topic of the British Empire.

Hundreds of thousands of British and Empire soldiers, are preparing for The Big Push, the biggest British offensive of the 1914-18 war to date. ... has offered to take pictures for a few francs.

The British Empire Exhibition transformed Wembley but none of the buildings created for it still stand today All images subject to copyright Listen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and ...

Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire “Queen Elizabeth was a life ...

The year 2024 offers an excellent opportunity to commemorate some memorable centenaries. A few spring to mind, like Malta’s participation in the grand British Empire Exhibition, held in Wembley ...

Then, in the early 1920s, a recipe leaflet distributed by the British Women's Patriotic League urged cooks to "make your Christmas pudding an 'Empire Pudding'", with ingredients sourced accordingly.

The Governor of Pesh-Bolak Ali Muhammad surrenders to General MacPhearson during the period of British Empire rule in India. (Getty Images) From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ...

The British Empire largely decolonized, but the monarchy did not. During the last decades of her reign, the queen watched Britain — and the royal family — struggle to come to terms with its ...

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On April 13, 1919, Gen. Reginald Dyer led a group of British soldiers to Jallianwala Bagh, a walled public garden in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar.