At the height of the British Empire, just after the First ... leading historians accepted the images of empire’s end that were projected in propagandistic newsreels—governors-general in ...

"The sun never sets on the British Empire." This phrase was often used ... When asked how Britain could help end the conflict over Kashmir during a visit to Pakistan in 2011, Prime Minister ...

The massacre triggered the beginning of the end of the colonial rule in India ... Gandhi was loyal to the British Empire and supported Britain in the First World War. Upon his return to India ...

ABOARD THE PRIME MINISTER’S PLANE TO SAMOA — As a symbol of the decline of British power, it could hardly be more stark. This week King Charles III will preside over a summit of 55 nations associated ...

risking their lives to protect the British Empire. But the sacrifices of those brave men is rarely remembered today. These remarkable photos were captured on the orders of the India Office in ...

British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images ... even as the Age of Empire seemed increasingly destined to end, was driven not by self ...

Debate about Britain's imperial past and the Black Lives Matter movement has a "cartoon-like view" of ... accrued directly as a result of the British Empire and the Atlantic Slave trade.

By the end of World War Two in 1945 it became clear that: Britain could no longer afford to maintain its empire British attitudes were changing, as more people began to believe that having an ...

“In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs,” Niall Ferguson wrote in 2002. “Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the ...

“The hangman of thousands”, a poster dubbed the British empire ... part to defend the empire, but all across the globe it was now collapsing in a war seemingly without end.