We were never the world hegemon. When Britain was at its height, America was very large and powerful, as was France, as was Russia, as were Prussia/Germany and Austria-Hungary. It was a multi-polar w… (View Post)
... You might want to read into this a bit. I studied the British Empire as part of my undergraduate degree (admittedly a wee while ago) and the industrial revolution was touched on both at A-level a… (View Post)
No we didn't, that's a fundamental misreading of the facts. We grew rich because we had an industrial revolution. If it was off the backs of anyone's poor it was the UK's poor. Of all our colonies, o… (View Post)