Alternate british empire flag

Complete map of everything England or Great Britain has ever owned, colonized, invaded, vassalized

The Empire of Britannia by achaley on DeviantArt

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Real Life Lore explores what the British Empire would look like if it were reunited today by comparing the current social and economic situations in the

British Iceland

Being born in 1946 I missed all the bad stuff. To me the "Empire" was gone but the "Commonwealth" was still with us. I am proud of what it is today, but not of it's past. My Queen is the Monarch of a lot of the countries but not all. Many countries enjoy the connection with Great Britain, now a days its more of a friendly relationship. Different to what it once was. The day that "the sun never set on the British Empire" is long gone. Those days we owned all "the Pink bits" on the world maps…

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British Indochina

British Empire

This is the British Empire’s flag.

A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole It does not look likely to stir a man's soul, 'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag, When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag. Sir Edward B. Hamley But how does the sight of a mouldering flag hanging forlornly in the corner of a classroom stir the souls of students separated from such deeds by time, geography, culture, and language? I teach history in an international school in China’s capital; most of the students are Asian…

United Kingdom Flag

Flags of Empire: British Imperial Flags

After our piece on possible alternatives to the union jack, many readers decided to design their own.