To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen ... The 1830s had seen a push for colonial emigration to Australia. The Aboriginal people were met with violence and new diseases brought ...

Alongside these soldiers, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Newfoundland and South Africa sent, between them, 1.3 million troops. Soldiers from different parts of the British Empire fought alongside ...

Radical reforms being considered by royal officials could see the word ‘Empire’ dropped from British honours. Under the outline plans, those recognised with an OBE – Order of the British ...

The beginning of a great forward movement in wireless communications between various parts of the British Empire is signified by a message from Australia reporting acceptance of the tender from the ...

Between 1869 and 1967, government-funded British charities sent nearly 100,000 British children to start new lives in the settler empire. This pioneering study tells the story of the rise and fall of ...

As for Australia, it displayed sheep-shearing and ... By the time it closed, the British Empire Exhibition was reported to have lost £1.5m (the equivalent of £75m today). Compare that to the ...