The Conservatives, benefiting from British success in the Boer War, and from splits in the Liberal Party, were returned to power. Lord Salisbury remained as prime minister and became the last ...

Race-based slavery soon became central to the economy of the British colonies in North America. A group attempting to escape religious persecution in England sailed for the New World and landed at ...

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 ...