The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the ...

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

1838 was the second year of Queen Victoria’s reign. Looking at this single year, we can get a sense of the different experiences of life in the British Empire. In Jamaica, the abolition of ...

The 1934 Games were originally awarded to Johannesburg however; the second British Empire Games eventually took place in London. The reason for this change was to avoid a political crisis over ...

It offers a unique and scholarly history of the complexity of the British Empire through its origins ... the course will examine the following: the origins of the second empire; explorers; liberalism ...