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The British Empire: An overview
Led by Mohandas Gandhi, the movement encouraged Indians to use civil disobedience in an attempt to gain independence from the British Empire. Figure caption, The Ghanaian flag was designed by ...
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Never Had It So Bad: The Decline of the Great British Empire
that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan uttered his famous pronouncement that Britons had “never had it so good.” Having ridden into office on a wave of popular discontent with the ...
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The sun still hasn't set on the British Empire: Only a fifth of voters say UK's colonial past is a source of shame - and one-in-five want it back
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 ...
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What Really Happened When India’s Mughal Empire Fell to the British Crown
"Imagine a land where the sun once set on a gilded empire and rose on the flag of a foreign crown ... Peacock Throne to the rigid dominion of the British Crown. It is a tale of how history ...