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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...

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

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

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

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