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The Scramble for Africa

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

In 1810 Napoleon's France ruled or controlled the greater part...

Nearly half a century ago, the historian A. J. P...

The second lecture in this series describes the astonishing and...

‘Nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of...

This is the 1995 Gresham Special Lecture.

In 1982, Argentina, which had long claimed the Falklands, invaded...

Vernon Bogdanor CBE FBA, Gresham Professor of Law Response by...

The war saw a transformation of politics at both elite...

A short video focusing on one of the great military...