Head-on | Why war and debt are fatal for empires

Could the Iran war be the inflection point that marks the beginning of the end of US global hegemony, as WWII marked the ...
Opinion
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India was central to the empire. It’s why the British dismantled it before they left

In 'India at War', Col DPK Pillay (Retd) explores how India survived when many empires vanished into history.
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This colony changed the course of the British Empire

The video explores the decline of the British Empire following World War II, revealing the pressures of war debts and rising ...
HistoryExtra

Was the British Empire really built on drugs? The unlikely rise of an imperial superpower

Grown in India and sold into China, opium generated substantial revenues for British rule – and much more Lin Zexu was a Chinese official acting on the behalf of the Qing dynasty emperor. In 1839, he ...