The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar -- from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two W

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from ti

From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and