Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionised the British lifestyle and laid the foundations of today's global trading systems.

2/2 How the East India Company became the rulers of British India, and how it all came undone.

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 ...

Books: C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (2004); Padraic Scanlan, Slave Empire: How Slavery Made Modern Britain (2020) David Olusoga, Black and ...

Mr Mearns has located 29 major wrecks in a career spanning 35 years, including the 16th century ship The Esmeralda from Vasco ...