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Exploitation and Resistance

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

England’s take off as the first industrial nation created a...

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

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

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

Notions of national security past and present. How Whitehall has...

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

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

Often described as the ultimate Renaissance Man, Mervyn Peake was...

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