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History Is Marked By Powerful Global Empires — But Which One Was The Largest?

Indeed, at its peak, the British Empire was by far the largest empire in history. By the 1920s, it controlled more than 13.7 ...
PBS

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David Olusoga tells the story of the beginnings of the British Empire under Elizabeth I. David Olusoga tells the story of the British Empire from its origins under Elizabeth I to the establishment of ...
The New Criterion

Rewriting the history of the British Empire

In the new film of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, the writer and director Patricia Rozema includes an early scene that is not in the book. As Fanny Price departs from her family in Portsmouth to ...
insider.si.edu

The British Empire before the American Revolution

Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: 1. Great Britain and Ireland. 2. The southern plantations. 3. The northern plantations. -- Zones of ...
CounterfireOpinion

Suez: a nail in the coffin of the British Empire

Michael Lavalette reviews a documentary on the Suez crisis, whose 70th anniversary is this year, which demonstrated Britain’s ...
The Conversation

Study shows views of British empire shape voting behaviour – but in subtle ways

If you wander through Glasgow Green, you’ll encounter the Doulton fountain, a gaudy terracotta tribute to empire that features “native” and colonial figures in national dress holding out the produce ...