The Washington Post

Map: The rise and fall of the British Empire

Queen Elizabeth will become officially become the longest serving monarch in British history this week, beating out her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria to take the title. During her almost ...
Nature

The MP Atlas A Collection of Maps showing the Commercial and Political Interests of the British Isles and Empire throughout the World

THIS atlas consists of a series of maps chiefly representing the British Empire. They are very clearly printed, and some of them are decidedly good specimens of cartography. The bathyorographical map ...
JSTOR Daily

Reduction of the Navy League Map Illustrating British Naval History . . . Dedicated to the Children of the British Empire

"The archetypal British Empire map," designed "to demonstrate and uphold the reality of imperial Britain's authority" and "the natural providence of Pax Britannia." Bryars 2014, 21. Show more As the ...
The Economist

The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...