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The RGS-IBG collection contains all series produced by the Directorate of Colonial Services (DCS) and its subsequent successors between 1946 and 1999. This includes: An affair to remember". The Economist. 27 July 2006. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the original on 8 May 2016 . Retrieved 25 June 2016. The East India Company drove the expansion of the British Empire in Asia. The company's army had first joined forces with the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War, and the two continued to co-operate in arenas outside India: the eviction of the French from Egypt (1799), [124] the capture of Java from the Netherlands (1811), the acquisition of Penang Island (1786), Singapore (1819) and Malacca (1824), and the defeat of Burma (1826). [118]

Vandervort, Bruce (1998). Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830–1914. University College London Press. ISBN 978-1-85728-486-7. Maddison 2001, p.97: "The total population of the Empire was 412 million [in 1913]"; Maddison 2001, pp.241: "[World population in 1913 (in thousands):] 1791020". McIntyre, W. David (1977). The Commonwealth of Nations. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-0792-1 . Retrieved 22 July 2009. In the 19th century, innovation in Britain led to revolutionary changes in manufacturing, the development of factory systems, and the growth of transportation by railway and steamship. [276] British colonial architecture, such as in churches, railway stations and government buildings, can be seen in many cities that were once part of the British Empire. [277] The British choice of system of measurement, the imperial system, continues to be used in some countries in various ways. The convention of driving on the left-hand side of the road has been retained in much of the former empire. [278] Lee, Stephen J. (1996). Aspects of British political history, 1914–1995. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-13102-5.Louis, Wm. Roger (2006). Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-347-6. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017 . Retrieved 22 July 2009. The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state of Great Britain, the historian Simon Schama said: During the 1970s, government reviewed the DOS’ purpose. Then, in 1984, the organisation was merged with Ordnance Survey and given a new title: Overseas Surveys Directorate, OS (OSD). Rein Taagepera (September 1997). "Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia". International Studies Quarterly. 41 (3): 475–504. doi: 10.1111/0020-8833.00053. JSTOR 2600793. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018 . Retrieved 28 December 2018.

Parsons, Timothy H. (1999). The British Imperial Century, 1815–1914: A World History Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-8825-8. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014 . Retrieved 22 July 2009. The Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) survey data catalogue is stored in 49 Kalamazoo binders. The master control diagrams (MCDs), generally at 1:500 000 scale, show the position and classification of every astronomical, trigonometrical or Doppler station for which coordinates suitable for 1:50 000 scale mapping are held. Master trig diagrams (MTDs) on the same sheetlines and scale show the observed rays used to fix the trig stations.Slavery Abolition Act 1833; Section XXIV". pdavis. 28 August 1833. Archived from the original on 24 May 2008 . Retrieved 3 June 2008. Thomas, Hugh (1997). The Slave Trade: The History of The Atlantic Slave Trade. Picador, Phoenix/Orion. ISBN 978-0-7538-2056-8. Archived from the original on 16 August 2021 . Retrieved 22 July 2009. Gilbert, Sir Martin (2005). Churchill and America. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9122-4. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014 . Retrieved 22 July 2009.