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On Top of the World, 1830 to 1914

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...

The Conservatives recovered remarkably rapidly from the debacle of 1945...

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

To the surprise of many, the 1945 general election led...

Thousands of people are estimated to be working as slaves...

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

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