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400 years ago, a trio of tiny kingdoms were perched on some damp islands off the coast of Europe.

Within three short centuries, these islands would become the center of an empire which ruled a quarter of the globe and on which the sun never set.

I'm Samuel Hume, a historian of the British Empire, and my podcast, Pax Britannica, follows the people and events that built that empire into a global superpower.

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finally to the most famous event of 1917, at least as far as Russia is concerned, the October

Revolution.

Even though the February Revolution had ended hundreds of years of Zarist rule and brought something approaching democracy to Russia.

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