The simple answer is the legacy it left the world.The more complex - but still overall simplistic - answer is below... So why was the empire one to be proud of? In many respects it wasn't, slavery,...
In the 1940s a survey was done where the vast majority of Britons could not name a single colony. More people thought Lincolnshire was a colony than India. Beyond patriotic attempts to raise...
For who to be proud of? I don't think anyone alive today had much to do with it so nobody has any reason to be proud really. Whether it was good for the world though- yeah, overall it was. It greatly...
The shame of the empire comes from the brutality of the slave trade, the unjust treatment of native peoples, the neglect of children and basically any other form of abuse you can think of. It is...