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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: The Victorian Web - The British Empire. | Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Imperial War Museums - The collapse of the British Empire. | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Rear Vision - The British Empire and what became of it. | Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| Article revised. | May 29, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The British rule and the English constitution in Corsica, 1794-1796. | Oct 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Bitesize - What was the British Empire? | May 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Historical Association - What's Included in the British Commonwealth? | Dec 05, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Apr 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Historic UK - Timeline of the British Empire. | Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - British Empire. | Oct 23, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic KiDS - British Empire facts! | Mar 13, 2022 | ||
| Removed media. | Dec 15, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 10, 2020 | ||
| Deleted the cross-reference to James Island. | Sep 17, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Our Migration Story - A Home for the Ayahs: From India to Britain and Back Again. | Apr 06, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Our Migration Story - Industrials & Imperial Migrations - The Lascars: Britain's Colonial Sailors. | Apr 01, 2020 | ||
| Added a map of the British Empire at its greatest extent. | Apr 08, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The National Archives - British Empire. | Jan 16, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - The British Empire. | Jan 16, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: New Zealand History - British Empire. | Sep 20, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Aug 01, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 21, 2017 | ||
| Added video. | Mar 20, 2015 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 23, 2009 | ||
| Article restructured. | Aug 21, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 24, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: HistoryWorld - History of The British Empire. | May 05, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: The British Empire. | Nov 24, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The British Empire - Timeline. | Nov 24, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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