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Where are the British Empire's lost treasures? How some of the UK's most valuable items including royal gem stones and Spanish loot have eluded experts for centuries
One year into the rebellion, he was offered financial support from Spain and France to help in his cause to regain the British throne. This came in the form of a french ship which arrived near ...
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British Topographic Maps, 1910
To see a quadrant, click below in a box. The British Topographic Maps were made in 1910, and are a valuable source of information about Assyrian villages just prior to the Turkish Genocide and ...
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Incredible map shows every British island across the world including one 8,939 miles away
At the outset of the First World War, the British Empire comprised 400 million people and its territorial arsenal was so vast that the sun never set on it. Since the end of the Second World War ...
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Troops from the British Empire
When World War Two broke out in September 1939, Britain called upon countries from across the British Empire for help. The contribution from people across the empire was crucial in helping Britain ...
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A map of American Empire
A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...
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The British Victorians who became Muslims
At the height of the Empire, a select band of British people renounced Christianity ... built in Woking in 1889, and was buried in the Surrey town after his death in 1932. The Liverpool mosque ...
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The end of the British Empire
This week King Charles III will preside over a summit of 55 nations associated with the fraying ends of the British empire. Hosted by Samoa, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), a ...
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The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750
Global Food History, p. 1. This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural ...
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The melancholy legacy of empire as the sun goes down on Britain’s last pink bits on the map
Of course, they all know their fulminations to be spurious blather, but it shows that Empire posturing is still de rigueur in ...
King open to removing word ‘empire’ from OBE honours amid colonial controversy
The word “empire” may be dropped British honours as part of reforms reportedly being considered by royal officials. Under the ...
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Israel's borders explained in maps
Here is a series of maps explaining why. The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire ... the moment the British mandate terminated, though ...