Leatherhead Matters

Although the sun has now set on the days of British Empire, I always wondered where the phrase “The Sun Never Sets on the Empire” came from. It’s meaning is wonderfully illustrated in the picture below with the animated sun moving across the globe and passing over just some of the British dominions (one for each hour of the day) . Click on the map to see the animation of the sun. It takes 5  seconds to load the animation.