Britain once built a government advertising agency for empire, and modernist artists helped market colonial rule.

Grown in India and sold into China, opium generated substantial revenues for British rule – and much more Lin Zexu was a ...

A new book traces the rise of tea and how it became one of the first commodities of globalization. If you were to take a map of the Earth and trace the rise of tea industry and culture, and then ...

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Just what drove the expansion of the British Empire into one of the largest in history? Kenneth Morgan weighs up whether it was the desire for greater trade or the thirst for conquest. The long 18th ...