India, often declared "the jewel in the crown" for the Empire, had won its independence just five years before. In 1952, British troops were fighting independence movements in Egypt and Kenya.

A map showing all the countries ... posts in the Americas and Africa. By the 1800s, it had spread across Asia and Australasia. By 1912, the British Empire ruled over 412 million people - which ...

Aiyaz Husain, a historian with the Policy Studies Division of the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State and author of the recently published “Mapping the End of Empire ... maps and ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen ... natural resources for their own financial gain. In the 1700s and 1800s, India experienced several devastating famines.

Many of the plants growing in the UK's soil today have their roots in colonialism and the British Empire — in fact there ... Brixton Botanical Map — a free map produced as part of Art on ...

Sources: Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire, Emerson Kent World History and Canadian Geographic ...