At its height, the British Empire - the biggest the world has ever seen - ruled over a fifth of the world’s land surface and almost a quarter of its people. Scattered across the World are the ruins of the Empire, from slave fortresses and plantations to schools and railways.

But perhaps the greatest legacy of the Empire is a living legacy. Today, billions of people around the World whose ancestors were part of the story of Empire. This is, in many ways, a shared history—often full of complexities and contradictions—that has changed the demographics of the World and forged new communities and identities.