What does EOE stand for?

The focus would have been on Edwina, Louis Mountbatten and Nehru and how they played out with the political dynamics and the sense of end of Empire.

At the end of empire in Africa in the 1960s, countries were severely underdeveloped and had large illiterate populations.

Titled British Documents on the End of Empire, the series was put together under what is called the "British Documents on the End of Empire Project (BDEEP)".

9781402752308 Prince of darkness, Richard Perle; the kingdom, the power and the end of empire in America.

In the collection’s first essay, “On the End of Empire,” he opens with a personal measure of extremes.

He begins in 1940 when the government decided to fight on alone against Germany and includes all the traditional themes in modern British history: the war, the advent of Attlee's Labour party to power, austerity, the resurgence of the Tories, the end of Empire, arguments over defence policy, the coming of the Common Market, the 'swinging sixties', Northern Ireland's 'troubles', the advent of Margaret Thatcher, the miners' strike, the Falklands War, the rise of 'New Labour' under Blair and the disasters of the war in Iraq.

If the sudden lack of English names on the honours board after 1973 was dramatic, it brought home the end of Empire.

And on Sunday, May 27, and Monday, May 28, The End of Empire will recreate the last days of the Roman Empire.