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The first detailed account - based on recently-opened archives - of when, how, and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independence to the Pacific Islands.
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This volume, the third of five, covers the long 19th century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both empire-builder and dominant world power.
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Examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire.
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Viceroys tells the important story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs and the role it played in the shaping of the modern British identity.
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This book examines, for the first time, the role of Britain's Empire in far-right thought between 1920 and 1980.
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Examining the depiction of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in Shakespeare's plays, this book considers how seventeenth-century ideas differed from the later... Læs mere
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A colourful survey of the uniforms and accoutrements of British Empire forces between the wars from 1919 to 1939.
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In 1907, in the gathering storm of the First World War, a global revolt against the British Raj was taking shape. A shadowy network known as the Ghadar or Mutiny Movement plotted an Indian uprising that spilled across Britain's Eastern Empire.
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‘The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you’d be mad not to want to live there yourself’ GUARDIAN
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The fascinating royal and social history that inspired the second and third seasons of The Crown, from the show's historical consultant.
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The true story of the British Empire’s fall and America’s rise in the aftermath of World War II
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A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong.