Listen "What was the British Empire?"
Episode Synopsis
An empire so vast that the sun, quite literally, never set on its territories. An empire that, at its zenith, covered about a quarter of the Earth's land surface and governed nearly a quarter of its population. Today we're talking, briefly, about the British Empire; a global power that shaped the modern world in ways we still feel profoundly today, from the languages we speak to the lines on our maps
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