As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so much of the world ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

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The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen ... of people were killed over the following years. Since the 17th century, the British-owned East India Company had controlled large parts ...

The map—presented as clear evidence of the Nazis’ hostile aspirations in what was (under the century old Monroe ... the map was a fiction forged by the British intelligence service,” Cull ...

Known as the Bromeswell bucket, the artifact found at England’s Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon site probably held the cremated remains of an important person, archaeologists say.

From the 17th to the 20th century, Britain ruled most of the Indian subcontinent, first indirectly through the British East India Company, then from 1858 directly through the British crown.

In this 17th-century map, with top facing south ... De Bourbourg’s writing went on to inspire Augustus Le Plongeon, a British American archaeologist who attempted to find Atlantis in Yucatán ...