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 ...

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 ...

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 sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

Alan Titchmarsh, 75, has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for his efforts in horticulture and charity. This is the most prestigious rank in the British Empire ...

In the early weeks of World War I, the German cruiser SMS Emden, under Korvettenkapitän Karl von Müller, had already devastated Allied trade routes by sinking 60% of commerce in the region.

The Review of the colonial troops and the deployment of the decorations for the coronation of Edward VII, who ruled between 1901 and 1910, at the height of the British empire. De Agostini/Getty Images ...

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 ...

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide.

But even as the empire expanded, some of its colonies grew frustrated with imperial oversight. In 1864 representatives from the three British colonies in modern-day Canada began to negotiate ...