The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

Trusted by the British for their bravery and loyalty, Gurkha soldiers became living legends in some of the toughest battles of the war.

tracing its roots to propaganda shared by the British government during World War II. According to Stolarczyk, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Information popularized the carrot myth as part of ...

The war involved people from all over the world. Britain's colonies sent over ... At that time, India included both Pakistan and Bangladesh. British Colonies sent soldiers from five different ...

As part of a study of World War Two as a significant turning point in British history, your pupils could use this short film to help them identify how Britain changed as a result of the war and ...

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 ...

The American Revolution pitted colonists against the British Empire in a struggle that resembled David’s stand against Goliath, but it also became a global war in which Britain defied an allied ...

Case studies include Britain and Zimbabwe; Idi Amin and Uganda; the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya; plus British rule in Somaliland and the fallout of the Somali civil war ... The British Empire Project: ...