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The Scramble for Africa

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

Opened up to the world once more England drank in...

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

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

This is an exploration of the history behind the great...

The Reformation and the Civil War, two events a century...

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

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

Against a background of political instability architectural initiative was captured...

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