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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...

The full-rigged ship was the essential technology that enabled the...

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

This is an exploration of the history behind the great...

One of the main advantages of talking about Cutty Sark...

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

From 1750 to the early 20th century, fleets of ‘Greenlanders’...