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Decolonization: The End of Empire?

European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918...

This lecture looks at the impact of empire on the...

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European...

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to...

The full-rigged ship was the essential technology that enabled the...

From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s...

One of the main advantages of talking about Cutty Sark...

Britain's history has been shaped by its relationship with the...

From 1750 to the early 20th century, fleets of ‘Greenlanders’...

The first lecture in the series looks at the initial...