Military history
Past Military history Lectures
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 ‘...
The war saw a transformation of politics at both elite and popular level. This led to the Liberals being replaced by Labour as the...
This lecture explores in broad terms the origins, of the First World...
This is the least-known of the wars discussed in this series of lectures, yet it was of crucial importance for Europe. The decay of the...
In three short, sharp military conflicts, the Kingdom of Prussia,...
The Crimean War is remembered in Britain mainly for its...
The international settlement reached at the Congress of Vienna...
In 1810 Napoleon's France ruled or controlled the greater part of Europe. Five years later, his Empire had crumbled into ruins....
The final lecture in this series asks why Germans kept on fighting...
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