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Leading Discussion
Colony Profile
Movie Analysis




Links Used in Class

British Empire Timeline

The British Empire Map Room

Telegraph Maps of the British Empire

List of British Overseas Territories

List of Commonwealth Countries


Aliens Act of 1905

Mapping the history of migration

Irish Immigrants in 19th-century London


Punch cartoons on the Sepoy Rebellion

Hottentot Venus

British Missionary Letters


British Missionary Photographs

YouTube playlist on movies about the British in Africa


Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Wardian Cases

The Story of Kew Gardens in Photographs

Wardian Architecture in Modern London

Queen Victoria's Empire (The Scramble for Africa)

50 Facts about the Easter Rising


"What Britain really needs is a memorial to the Easter Rising"


League of Nations Mandates - the Middle East


League of Nations Mandates - Africa

Political cartoon about Mandates


Footage of the 1924 British Empire Exhibition

British Empire Exhibition memorabilia on eBay

George V's Christmas Day Broadcast, 1932

Empire of the Sun Official Trailer (1987)

All the Ships of the British Navy


Unity of Strength Together

Convincing the Colonies

Population transfer as a result of the 1947 Partition


India and Pakistan: The Legacy of Partition

Newsreel footage of Suez Crisis

Suez Crisis - Western Ministers Meet


"Conquest of Everest 1953"


"1953. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II: 'The Crowning Ceremony'"


The Commonwealth Secretariat

Map of British Decolonization in Africa

Declaration of Commonwealth Principles