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The Iraq War, 2003

Britain and the United States had long been fearful that...

Empire in the Pre-Industrial World

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

Oil, Decolonisation, and the Future of the Climate Emergency

Decolonisation movements sought to win sovereignty and control over national...

A World Remade by Decolonization?

The lecture shares perspectives from global history, comparative politics, and...

Waterloo: Causes, Courses and Consequences

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18th June 1815...

The Victorians: Empire and Race

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

From Conquest to Control

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

The Scramble for Africa

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

Peace and Commerce: Challenges to America in World Trade

Exploitation and Resistance

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