Imperial Images: The Empire Marketing Board, 1926-32
Buying and selling with our 'kith and kin' was the hallmark of an intensive inter-war campaign for the idea of Empire.
Empire
Eugenfest
Philip Mansel looks at the commemorations surrounding the 250th anniversary of the death of a Habsburg monarch.
The Games Ethic and Imperialism
Victor Bailey reviews two titles on Empire and Culture.
The Portuguese Voyages of Discovery
Helen Wallis charts the Portugal's astonishing success in voyages of exploration between 1415 and 1520
The Fall of the Angevin Empire
A damned inheritance, hopelessly over-extended and out-resourced by the kings of France? Or an effective empire thrown away by incompetence and harshness? John Gillingham weighs the blame for John's loss of the Angevin dominions.
Cultural Decolonisation: UNESCO & Africa
John D. Hargreaves discusses cultural reconstruction and its political implications.
The Angevin Empire
The Angevin Empire may have come about by a mixture of luck and calculation, but skill and respect for local custom were required for Henry II to preserve it intact.
The New Commonwealth Migrants 1945-62
The legacy of empire brought nearly half a million blacks and Asians to Britain in the fifties in search of a better life.
The British Empire 1558-1983
A Short Oxford History title on the rise and fall of the dominant imperial power.
End of Empire
The British Empire was the largest in the history of the world. Brian Lapping explains how the end of that Empire was charted for television.