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3 days ago · See list. Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [1] [2] [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
3 days ago · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
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4 days ago · Statutes of the Realm: Volume 6, 1685-94. The statutes of the last years of James II, the Glorious Revolution, and the first years of William and Mary. Includes the 'Bill of Rights' of 1688-9 and the Triennial Act of 1694. Statutes of the Realm. Originally published by Great Britain Record Commission, s.l, 1819.
2 days ago · India. The Maratha Confederacy, [a] also referred to as the Maratha Empire or the Maratha Kingdom, [6] [7] was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent comprising the realms of the Peshwa and four independent Maratha chiefs [8] who were often subordinate to the former. It was formed in 1674 with the coronation of Shivaji of the House ...
3 days ago · The authors list their themes as difference within empires, imperial intermediaries, imperial intersections, imperial imaginaries, and repertoires of power. Repertoires of power, while a somewhat vague term, emerges clearly as a concept throughout the book, playing a large role in the differentiation of imperial experiences.
5 days ago · Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully, and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm, did, upon the thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty-eight, present unto their Majesties, then called and known by the names and style of William and Mary, Prince and Princess of ...
3 days ago · Imperial Island: A History of Britain and its Empire, 1660-1837. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, ISBN: 9781405134453; 448pp.; Price: £19.99. Among the challenges that define teaching the history of Britain to undergraduates, those presented by national context are perhaps the most complex. To offer generalisations based on experience, it ...
