The identity of a Cooper’s Hill man was an ideal to live up to. The Cooper’s Hill man was ‘a […]

The Royal Indian Engineering College (RIEC or Cooper’s Hill) was founded in Egham in 1871 on the insistence of Sir […]

Exploring protest through comparison is not just fascinating. It has the potential to be immensely useful: improving our understanding of and facilitating more open conversations around discontent.

An exhibition, curated by Katie Smith, which engages with the photographs and objects from the collections of Egham Museum to […]

One of the most famous pieces of imperial material culture ever produced was ‘The Empire Map’, with Britain’s imperial territories […]

Although imperial popular culture did exist prior to the nineteenth century, the pace of its distribution and production began to […]

Royal events were a chance to showcase and celebrate Britain’s Imperial Conquest to the wider British public. This jubilee mug […]

The impact and legacies of the British Empire is still being felt today, and for many nations that were once […]

One hundred years ago, the total land coverage of Britain’s imperial possessions covered 25% of the world’s land surface. But […]

Training Colleges After the 1857 Indian Mutiny, India officially became a territory of the crown. Queen Victoria was crowned Empress […]

1600: The East India Company is founded, and brings back spices from across the world back to Britain. 1662: Catherine […]

Significant to Egham, these trade cards [1] were produced by Thomas Holloway, the founder of the nearby Royal Holloway College […]

‘In the late nineteenth and well into the twentieth century, the empire was a frequent backdrop for commercial advertising. Advertisements […]