Colonial History

European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918, continued to expand after the First World War, reaching their greatest...

This lecture looks at the impact of empire on the colonizers and the colonized. In Europe, ideologies of imperialism emerged,...

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European empires slowly imposed their control on the territories that in many cases...

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to formal imperial acquisitions. Between this point and the outbreak...

From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s, British industrial might and British command of the oceans underpinned the ‘...

Britain’s history has been shaped by its relationship with the sea. The possibilities and profits offered by maritime trade...

The first lecture in the series looks at the initial expansion of Europe, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It explores the...

Science and religion came together to help shape the attitudes of the British and Europeans towards the rest of the world, whose...

It was during these years that British statesmen first came to...

This lecture offers an overview of the convict...