The Pound was the dominant international currency up until the 1940s but changes to the financial system and new trading treaties changed all that.

Two ex-British colonies ditched the Pound Sterling ... it created what was known as the Sterling Area - a zone where former colonies pegged their currency to the Pound's exchange rate.

In terms of size, the British Empire was at its largest in the years following World War One, when it gained some of Germany’s former colonies. This was because Germany had lost World War One ...

People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they were. The British believed Africans ... Senegal, our former Prime Minister, Mamadou Dia, asked us to leave the French army ...

A. Tempany, G. M. Roddan and L. Lord (Emp. J. Exp, Agric, 12, 121; 1944), brings the story of soil conservation in the British Colonies up to date. Much of the story is by now well known ...

But the atmosphere in the city was different from other former British colonies. According to John Carroll, a history professor at the University of Hong Kong, the city’s unique history played a ...

Many of the newly digitised items show daily life in former British colonies. "To understand racism you really need to understand empire," said archivist Jayne Pucknell. "We don't look at our past ...