British empire

British Army's uniforms during the Boer War- by Harry Payne

Subjects of the Crown Britian's final show of strength in Williamsburg, Virginia. Sunner, 1781

Rex Woods - Britania

Artist/Maker: Williams, Hugh Role in production: Artist Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom Date: n/a Accession Number: 1935.732 Medium / Material: ink/paper, printed Support: paper Technique: lithography Description A Union Jack flag is used to suggest a port with ships anchored upon the flags markings. Goods sit upon the red stripes of the flag ready to be loaded on the cargo ships and vehicles and figures move around the red and white markings. Each 'arm' of the flag is marked with…

Download this stock image: 'Buy British' a board game involving trade within the British Empire. A new map game. Buy British. An exciting world race, and one which will teach the players Trade within the Empire. London : Geographia, [1932]. Source: Maps 162.p.6. Language: English. - R513DR from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

Desire for a peaceful world

Imagine history as a series of TV shows. Some nations had blockbuster openings, others suffered from bad sequels, and a few experienced disastrous reboots. Here’s how history would look if countries were TV franchises.

British Empire Stamp

'Soldiers of the Queen' The full array of soldiers of the British Empire right around the globe, in a single glance.

British Empire - 1920 AD

Some political activists from the African-American community in the United States have a pejorative term for a black person believed to be unduly sympathetic to or enamoured of European-American cu…

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

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…

Currently on display in Drury Court after extensive conservation resides the highly theatrical and dramatic painting by , Nicholas Habbe, Britannia Rules the Waves. The 1876 allegorical genre painting draws on the artist’s experience as a theatre designer and incorporates a cast of sea nymphs, nereids and tritons surrounding a chariot as it forges its way across a churning sea. A winged baby riding a dolphin and an anxious-looking whale contribute to the scene.

This is the British Empire’s flag.