British Empire

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Ancient, patriarchal and oracular, Tennyson was not merely the poet laureate of England; he was, like his queen, a symbol of the British Empire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

The family history is enmeshed with the British Empire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

Welsh was not an institutionalised or official language so it wasn't considered a suitable medium for education during the Victorian heyday of the British Empire.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025

He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2002 and knighted in 2015 for his public service, "particularly to the Church of England".

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

By 1900, at age twenty-six, he had risen in the ranks of the merchant service, carrying mail and cargo around the British Empire.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong