Scots appear to be unwilling to accept their country's leading role in creating the British Empire, a new poll suggests. More people believe that Scotland was simply a subject of England than a ...

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The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday ...

The gun was among many trade goods, including bales of cotton cloth, rum, guns and gunpowder on the Brig Lily, which had been bound for Africa from Liverpool. The ship anchored off the Calf of Man ...

Twenty-nine men from Port St Mary on the Isle of Man were killed when the Brig Lily exploded during efforts to salvage its cargo, which included gunpowder, on 28 December 1852. It is believed the ...