Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised the British lifestyle and laid the foundations of today's global trading systems.

2/2 How the East India Company became the rulers of British India, and how it all came undone.

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Their method was incrementalism, not revolution. During the 1930s, the British socialists looked around the world and saw other governments that were "doing things." One model was the optimistic ...

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Stephen Fry has been knighted in the U.K.'s annual New Year Honors list, while Carey Mulligan and Sarah Lancashire have been ...

In creating a Free State dominion of the British empire rather than a republic, the divisions the treaty caused within Irish republicanism were to have fatal and enduring consequences, involving ...

Roman chariots were raced around Wembley Stadium as part of the exhibition's entertainment On St George's Day one hundred years ago, King George V stepped on to the turf of the newly created ...

The Truth About Empire: Real Stories of British Colonialism; By Alan Lester Hurst; 304 pp., 34.95 Pennycuick, a British Indian Army engineer, achieved deification for building the Mullaperiyar Dam ...