Imperial Rivalry with the Russian Empire During the nineteenth century, Great Britain and Russia engaged in...
Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...
Cannabis Britannica: The rise and demise of a Victorian wonder-drug In 1800 cannabis preparations were almost entirely unknown in Britain...
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire In 1945, the imperial possessions of Great Britain circled the...
How to Place Slavery into British Identity This lecture will revisit the determinants of British identity by...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...
Shanawdithit: A Woman at the End of the World Shanawdithit was a woman who bore witness to the death...
The American Way of War in History and Politics FULBRIGHT LECTURE The recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have...