Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution Toussaint Louverture (the “Black Spartacus”), was one of the main...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The defeat of Napoleon, 1806-1815 In 1810 Napoleon's France ruled or controlled the greater part...
After Iraq - Shall we ever intervene again? The former leader of the Liberal Democrats, the Rt Hon...
The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989 - The little dictators The third lecture in the series asked why so many...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: War and Revolution in 1848 The international settlement reached at the Congress of Vienna in...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The Russo-Turkish War, 1875-1878 This is the least-known of the wars discussed in this...
Formal and Informal Empire in the Nineteenth Century From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s...
The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989 - Mussolini The first lecture set the scene by analysing the devastating...
Great Britain and the other imperial powers: Conflict over China During the nineteenth century, Great Britain fought two wars, the...