The show is now available on catch up. At its height, the British Empire was the biggest the world had ever seen. While its story is too vast to condense on one page, here’s a handy timeline of the ...

Explore all of British history, from the Neolithic to the present day, with this easy-to-use interactive timeline. Browse hundreds of key events and discover how the past has shaped the world we ...

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The timeline covers a broad range of eras, ensuring that every major period of British history is represented. It starts with the dinosaurs, allowing children to explore prehistoric Britain, before ...

It received trading rights to the South Seas in return for financing the British government's debt. Shares were issued and unrealistic expectations cultivated. A monopoly of the slave trade was ...

The British Empire is a subject that evokes a lot of strong opinions and Al is prepared to face criticisms from both sides of the argument. ‘My timeline is going to be an absolute sewer,’ he told Sky ...

There was more expansion in the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and above all in Africa in subsequent years. This rapid growth of the Empire was part of the ‘New Imperialism’, when Britain and other ...

It is difficult to conceive of a national or global story more dramatic, complex, varied, important, depressing, uplifting and surprising than the history of the decline and fall of the British Empire ...

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 ...