British Empire

The British Empire didn’t want to hold on to its American colonies just for their resources and taxes; they represented its most rapidly growing market.

He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and was made an honorary Knight of the British Empire.

As a former police officer and a journalist in the British Empire, Orwell grew up in a reality he used to create his fiction.

Full emancipation for enslaved people in the British Empire, excluding some exceptions like the East India Company, was granted by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

In 2017, she became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire but - unlike Hyacinth - honours did not go to her head.