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Where are the British Empire's lost treasures? How some of the UK's most valuable items including royal gem stones and Spanish loot have eluded experts for centuries
One year into the rebellion, he was offered financial support from Spain and France to help in his cause to regain the British throne. This came in the form of a french ship which arrived near ...
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The British Empire
The British Empire began in the 1500s, under Elizabeth I’s rule. The empire grew to rule over 400 million people, having a significant impact on people in Britain and the colonies. British ...
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WWI Factions The British Army
Faction: The British Army The First World War At the start of the 20th century the British Army was a small body of volunteer ...
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The black British history you may not know about
George The Poet, who was questioned about this on Newsnight, believes a lack of education about black British history - and the British Empire - plays ... Lavinya says. 5. WW1 and the race riots ...
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Indian WW1 soldiers laid to rest after French mystery
A Hindu priest chants prayers in front of two flag-draped coffins ... names of many Indian soldiers who died fighting for the British Empire. Nalinee Goojha, who lives in Paris, told me she ...
How the sun will set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years
The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday ...
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From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day
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 ...
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Empire's Children
Between 1869 and 1967, government-funded British charities sent nearly 100,000 British children to start new lives in the settler empire. This pioneering study tells the story of the rise and fall of ...
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The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750
Global Food History, p. 1. This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural ...
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Troops from the British Empire
When World War Two broke out in September 1939, Britain called upon countries from across the British Empire for help. The contribution from people across the empire was crucial in helping Britain ...
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The end of the British Empire
This week King Charles III will preside over a summit of 55 nations associated with the fraying ends of the British empire. Hosted by Samoa, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), a ...