This is the central argument of University of Exeter professor of history Jeremy Black’s new book Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World, which, according to the book jacket ...

Hannay and Arbuthnot went undercover into the Ottoman Empire to thwart German plans (the Ottomans were allied to the Central Powers) to foment rebellion in Muslim lands against their British ...

Report 1158, The British Empire, March 1942 ... In various news and current affairs documentaries, non-whites appeared - though, most obviously, in programmes about the India-Pakistan conflict ...

Oba Ewuare Introduced hereditary succession (the heir to the throne is the current king's child ... Benin belonged to the British Empire until 1960. Then it became part of the independent ...

Compared to that, the current British army in total is roughly around ... as was some of her contemporaries. The Empire, however, had a massive foreign manpower reserve. The British-Indian army ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...

Empire of Light, the latest film from ACADEMY AWARD® winning director Sam Mendes, is a prime example of the genre. Set in the quintessentially British environment of a struggling art deco cinema ...