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From Conquest to Control

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...

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

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

At the end of the eighteenth century, the average British...

Half a million people in the UK are on the...

Science and religion came together to help shape the attitudes...

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