This is an edited version of the file: <a class="external free" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:British_Empire_evolution.gif">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:British_Empire_evolution.gif</a> on wikimedia, which used to be on this page. The old version seemed to suggest that the Republic of Ireland rejoined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire" class="extiw" title="w:British Empire">British Empire</a> after 1938 sometime which is obviously untrue. I just re-edited the .gif to reflect the fact that this is not true.
<p>This file was made from the public domain image Image:Colonisation2.gif by User:Andrei nacu, by removing other countries and including only Britain.
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Years shown: 1492, 1550, 1660, 1754, 1822, 1885, 1914, 1919, 1938, 1945, 1959, 1974, 2007
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gerrynobody" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:User:Gerrynobody">Gerrynobody</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:">English Wikipedia</a>
11 July 2007 (original upload date)
Transferred from <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org">en.wikipedia</a></span> to Commons.