Among its aims, the institute sought to promote British architecture both at home and throughout the British Empire. Alongside other 19th century Royal Charter bodies, it attempted to legitimise ...

During the 19th century the British fought minor wars in Africa to secure British control of colonial territories. These included the: Ashanti Wars in West Africa. Matabele Wars in South Africa.

Welsh was actively discouraged in schools by means including the hated Welsh Not. The mid-19th century was a turbulent period ...

Some of the royal artefacts were stolen by British colonisers during the 19th Century Anglo-Ashanti war. Butter sculptures of British royalty and a working coalmine were on display but what was it ...

Understanding the British Empire (CUP, 2010); Ronald Hyam, Britain's Imperial Century, 1815 to 1914 (CUP latest edn); John Newsinger, The blood never dried: A people’s history of the British Empire ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa ... owning in 1807 and slave trading in 1834 throughout the British Empire proved to be two important turning points.

Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...

Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many foodstuffs that do not appear ... Colonial institutions, ranging from schools to workhouses, were a key ...

Madhurima Vidyar­thi’s book is a fic­tional account of the life of Kadambini Gan­guly, one of the first female graduates of ...