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Decolonization: The End of Empire?

European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918...

Empire in the Pre-Industrial World

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

Anglo-American relations: Where we are, and how we got there

The Scramble for Africa

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

Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

Toussaint Louverture (the “Black Spartacus”), was one of the main...

From Conquest to Control

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

Great Britain and the other imperial powers: Conflict over China

During the nineteenth century, Great Britain fought two wars, the...

India: The Jewel in the Crown

The loss of the American colonies in 1783 deprived Great...

North America's Largest Act of Slave Resistance?

This lecture will reveal and analyse the history of the...

The Politics of Fabric and Fashion in Africa 1960-Today

1960 was the year of Africa. Over seventeen countries rid...