At war with the French: Louis XIV and Napoleon Both Louis XIV in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire In 1945, the imperial possessions of Great Britain circled the...
The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989 - Mussolini The first lecture set the scene by analysing the devastating...
The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989 - Hitler The second lecture in the series turned to Germany, where...
Imperial Rivalry with the Russian Empire During the nineteenth century, Great Britain and Russia engaged in...
Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...
Britain in the 20th Century: A new consensus? 1990-2001 The fall of Margaret Thatcher left a legacy that was...
The Londonderry Plantation from 1641 until the Disengagement at the end of the Nineteenth Century The events that led to the Londonderry Plantation had momentous...