A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

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 ...

Technically speaking, however, sunlight continued to shine on at least one portion of British-occupied land for about another six months. The primary holdout? A section of the British Antarctic ...

It offers a unique and scholarly history of the complexity of the British Empire through its origins ... the course will examine from the late 1700s the following: the origins of the second empire; ...