Essays on British Empire

The British LNU became the largest and most influential organisation in the British peace movement. By the mid-1920s, it had over a quarter of a million registered subscribers and its membership eventually peaked at around 407,775 in 1931. By the 1940s, after the disappointments of...

In 1979, Britain went through a political change as Margret Thatcher became prime minister. Thatcher inherited the post when the United Kingdom’s economy was in a state of serious recession, and capitalism needed reinvigorating to combat this she introduced series of social, cultural political and...

Before 1944, India controlled by the British saw the development of nationalist movements such as the civil disobedience movement (Salt Satyagraha) in the 1930s, and the ‘Quit India’ movement of 1942. This resulted with India gaining independence in 1947. Within Britain this was also period...

The British Empire was one of the widest spread and most successful empires in history. There are many reasons why the British were so successful. Firstly, they had access to resources throughout the world. Their territory spread across six of the seven continents. The empire...

Emerging from the post-war imperial defeat, in a milieu where national pride was perpetually receding, the abolitionist campaign was able to gain momentum in the various echelons of society due to the multifarious advancements that it had the potential to enable. Various factors were integral...

The first European country to colonize South Africa was the Netherlands. The Dutch were looking for a place where they could dock ships that were on long voyages so that they could restock. The Netherlands’ interest was aroused after 1647 when two employees of the Dutch...

In this essay, I am going to analyze the style and techniques that are used in the two poems. I will do this by comparing the two poems as well as including samples from the texts which will help to illustrate the points that I...

Described by one national newspaper in 1915 as the best-known nationalist figure in Ireland, Arthur Griffith and his ideology had clearly gained, at the very least, widespread recognition across Ireland. To explain his ideology we can situate his ideas into a framework of longer-term patterns...

Introduction Colonialism and imperialism have both played major roles in the development of the Belfast landscape that we know today. In the 1500s Ireland was initially taken over by Britain through settlements which were known as plantations in Ulster who were generally loyal to the...

Introduction Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, known to us as Paul Kruger, played a major role in shaping the History of South Africa with his contribution and involvement during the Angelo-Boer War and a strong sense of fighting for the independence of the Transvaal against the...

Truganini was an important figure for Aboriginals during the establishing of contact between the English and Aboriginals during the initial establishment of civilisation on Van Diemen’s Land, now modern-day Tasmania. Truganini’s mission started when she was born in 1812 on Bruny Island, around 35 years...

Under the floors of the huge museum, under the daylight, unexposed to everyday life and everyday words being exchanged and being echoed in circles through the museum hall and disappearing out in the smock and daylight, that surrounds the city. Even guests allowed in the...

 In Stirling, Scotland, there is a narrow bridge over marshland and river. The English knights tried to cross the River Forth through this bridge right in front of the Scottish army. Inspired by and led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray, they embraced their higher...

All literature is a reflection of the culture it was composed as well as representative of the values important to that society. ‘The Other’ is a common theme throughout literature varying from time periods and cultures depending on their definition of it. The Victorian Era...

Dracula by Bram Stoker is a gothic novel detailing the story of the title character Dracula’s attempt to spread the undead curse from Transylvania to England and find new blood as well as his battle against a small group of men and women otherwise referred...

British popular culture glorifies the evacuation at Dunkirk as a miracle, a moment of national pride, but was this really the case? The question of whether the evacuation was a miracle is based upon the false assumption that miracles exist in the first place. To...

The battle of Dunkirk was a military operation that took place in Dunkirk, France, during the Second World War. The war between the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands which were the allies and Nazi Germany. The mission was to evacuate the allies...

The battle at Dunkirk (1940) was fought on the Western French-German border and the Allies were beginning to lose. When this happened the Nazi forces advanced forcing the allies to retreat to the beach of Dunkirk, the Nazis were going to take their time to...

The Dunkirk evacuation, which occurred between the 26th May and 4th June 1940, codenamed “Operation Dynamo” involved the successful rescue of 338,000 British, French and Belgian troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in Northern France. The event has embedded itself in the memory of the...