The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

wrote at the time that the move could be considered “a symbol of the part-Kenyan president’s ancestral dislike of the British empire”. However, a statement published by The White House in ...

American President Eisenhower condemned the invasion ... through Africa that was bringing independence from the Empire. The British government had accepted that decolonisation had to come to ...

Stephen Fry has been knighted in the U.K.’s annual New Year Honors list, while Carey Mulligan and Sarah Lancashire have been named commanders of the British Empire. Each year, the reigning ...