This section as part of the Migration topic of History GCSE focuses on how Britain gained it’s empire from medieval times through to the early 20th century. Click on the links below.
- 19th Century: Expansion and Empire
- African Missionaries and Rhodes’ Confession
- British Reforms of Indian Ways
- Building Trade Networks with France (c.790–1560)
- Conflicts with France
- Control in India, Canada, Australia, and Africa
- Embracing Social Darwinism (19th Century)
- Expansion into the Americas
- Expansion of Global Commercial Activity in 16th and 17th Centuries
- Protestantism, Security, and Liberty (16th Century)
- The Emergence of English Identity
- The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
- Wars in Africa (Late-19th and Early-20th Century)
- Wars with Spain, Holland, and France in the 16th and 17th Centuries
