Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern Britain should be ashamed of, a new poll suggests. A third of adults (33 per cent) believe that the UK's colonial period in ...

English colonialists liked to say “The sun never sets on the British Empire.” This was literally true by the early 20th ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: No empire wins every fight, not even the vaunted British. For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and... Here’s What You ...

An incredible map shows every country invaded by ... identity to be forced across the globe into an "empire on which the sun never sets". The empire began its descent after the Second World ...