The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen ... Indian soldiers fought in the Second Boer War in South Africa from 1899 - 1902, and in both world wars. The Benin Bronzes are elaborate ...

"These events in South Africa are being watched by the whole world. They will silence many voices which have been all too ready to say that the days of the British empire are over," declared a ...

It sounds more like a fable than a news story... An ambitious family arrived from a distant land, wormed its way into the heart of a young democracy, became unimaginably rich and influential ...

For Victoria, who would never venture farther south from England than ... At the bottom of Africa, the decline and dismemberment of the British Empire was beginning.

For Victoria, who would never venture farther south from England than France and Italy, it was a tactile introduction to the Empire ... Africa, but he left anyway, joining the main column of the ...