The author of the Horrible Histories series has admitted he hates the British Empire “with a passion”. Terry Deary, who has ...

Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...

When the war ended, India was not allowed to govern itself. Eventually, in 1947, it did gain independence from Great Britain. Commanding officers of the Rhodesian volunteers with their troops.

Terry Deary, the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, has launched a scathing attack on Britain's imperial past, ...

Britain’s economic prominence in the world went through great turmoil during the 20th ... been extraordinarily costly for Britain and her empire, and in 1945 the country was exhausted and ...

At the end of the 19th Century, when my great-grandfather, Sgt Patrick Hassett Sr, was patrolling in Cork, the British Empire was the most powerful the world had ever seen. It covered roughly 20% ...

By the time it closed, the British Empire Exhibition was reported to have lost £1.5m (the equivalent of £75m today). Compare that to the Great Exhibition of 1851 which had six million visitors ...

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core This edited collection of essays examines the role of citizen soldiers in the British empire during the Victorian ... Commonwealth ...