The term superpower was coined in 1944 to describe the anticipated world order that would emerge after the war. Only the British empire was expected to survive as the standard-bearer of ...

A former Surrey sub-postmistress wrongly jailed while eight weeks pregnant has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Seema Misra, who ran a post office in West Byfleet, is ...

In order to view this content with full interactivity ... Disclaimer: this map is intended to illustrate trends in the British Empire at the relevant fixed points in time. It does not attempt ...

In 1982, Norman was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire for her services in sports a year before her death in August 1983 as a result of cancer. Fifteen nations competed at the ...

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 ...