‘The British empire post–1815 was a vast human phenomenon, built largely on forced labour. This book tackles its complexity and diversity, its tyranny and hesitant idealism head on and the result is a ...

They argued that the economy of the British Empire was reliant on the slave trade ... 50 rebels were captured, with 30 executed for treason. In 1815, a rumour had swept through Barbados that ...

Understanding the British Empire (CUP, 2010); Ronald Hyam, Britain's Imperial Century, 1815 to 1914 (CUP latest edn); John Newsinger, The blood never dried: A people’s history of the British Empire ...

His brillant career ended on June 22, 1815 — four days after the Battle ... He wished, he said, "to reside in a country house near London." The British turned him down. Instead, they sent ...

Victoria knew she was rather plain, with her chief and perhaps only asset her position as queen of the mightiest empire on the globe ... 1840 with Albert in a British field marshal's uniform ...

European Religious Minorities in the Age of Nationalism (1815-1914), eds. Wessel Kruhl, Roberto Dagnino, and Alessandro Grazi (Leuven: Peeters, 2017), 117-36. Review of Joseph Hardwick, Prayer, ...

The Dutch and British were in competitive empire-building mode at the time ... in 1795 and Britain added Cape of Good Hope ...

In July 2015, my Budapest dwelling parents suggested we meet in Vienna for a family vacation − they took the train, my ...

Published in two volumes in 1812 and 1815 ... Empire. Hessen-Darmstadt was Lutheran. Hessen-Kassel, where the Grimms were ...

November 13 marks the birth anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Gain insights into his life in today’s knowledge nugget.

Finding the right image: British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery ... Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815–1914, and, as co-editor, Shaping the Transnational Sphere: ...