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Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor

By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...

Economic dominance brings cultural dominance and the architecture of Empire...

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...

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

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

Science and religion came together to help shape the attitudes...

If there was any single belief that characterised the Victorian...