1838 was the second year of Queen Victoria’s reign. Looking at this single year, we can get a sense of the different experiences of life in the British Empire. In Jamaica, the abolition of ...

The 1934 Games were originally awarded to Johannesburg however; the second British Empire Games eventually took place in London. The reason for this change was to avoid a political crisis over ...

the contribution of empire to the First and Second World Wars; fast exit strategies; violent decolonisation; race and immigration; post-colonial dictators and the legacy of white settlers. Case ...