India, often declared "the jewel in the crown" for the Empire, had won its independence just five years before. In 1952, British troops were fighting independence movements in Egypt and Kenya.

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An astonishing map shows every country ... It was the largest empire in history and the main global power, referred to as Pax Britannica. In 1912, the British Empire ruled over 412 million people ...

Below is a map from 1901 showing the “British Empire” at one of its peak periods. The map doesn't convey the extent of British influence, especially, in Latin America. This is what historians ...

AN interactive map shows where Romans occupied British towns nearly 2,000 years ... are marked in black. The Roman Empire conquered vast swathes of Europe, West Asia and North Africa.

The map showed the world ... job we as a nation do when it comes to teaching our own history of empire. There is no British Imperial History 101, so to speak. As it is, instruction of British ...

John M MacKenzie's A Cultural History of the British Empire shows how the Caribbean turned cricket into a means of resistance There is a clip on YouTube from a 1982 BBC documentary in which the ...

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