” said Wolf Burchard, who was the lead curator for the new galleries. That was the expansion of the British Empire, and it seemed an especially timely topic as Britain pressed ahead with Brexit, its withdrawal from the European Union.
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At the end of the 16th century, England and the Dutch Empire began to challenge the Portuguese Empire's monopoly of trade with Asia, forming private joint-stock companies to finance the voyages—the English, later British, East India Company and the Dutch East India Company, chartered in 1600...
The French Revolutionary general Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798 made plans for an invasion of Egypt in order to constrict Britain’s trade routes and threaten its possession of India. The British government heard that a large French naval expedition was to sail from a French Mediterranean port under ...
This was especially true after the collapse of the Mongol empire and the rise of the Ottoman Empire all but blocked the ancient Silk Road. As Europeans, led by the Portuguese, began to explore maritime navigation routes to bypass middlemen, the distance of the venture required merchants to set...
birthtotheImperialAirshipScheme,aplantolinktheBritishEmpireby long-rangeairshiproutes.Theschemeauthorisedthebuildingoftwomassive airships,eachwithacapacityof5,000,000cu.ft,adisposableliftof50tons andaccommodationfor100passengers.Thepreviousnumberingsystem havingbeenabandoned,oneship,builtbythecivilianAirshipGuara...
Britishchildren’s literature-loving goo. Although a reference to the British Empire – other than the arrival of theWindrush– would have been nice, I think thatDanny Boyle’s narrative of British history which emphasised the nation’sindustrial heritage, itsprotest and trade unionmovements, and...
Founded in 1858 by the former ruler of the insular Pate sultanate after several abortive moves to the mainland, the native sultanate of Wituland was a haven for slaves fleeing the Zanzibar slave trade and thus a target of attacks from the Sultanate of Zanzibar (ruled by a branch of the Oma...
Although they were technically co-regents, Thutmose was only 2 years old when the pair ascended to the throne, leaving virtually all of the power in Hatshepsut’s hand for 22 years, during which she enjoyed a highly successful rule, establishing trade routes and overseeing major building ...
Seeking to expand their ability to access Asia, France obtained from Egypt (then a part of the declining Ottoman Empire) the right to develop a new route to Asia. Between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea that leads to the Indian Ocean is the Egyptian territory of the Suez. The Frenc...