Decolonization: The End of Empire? - Professor Richard J. Evans

A history of Empire in the 20th Century, by one of Britain's leading Modern Historians.

Empire: Exploitation and Resistance - Professor Richard J Evans

A lecture on the impact of empire on the colonizers and the colonized, looking in particular at the comparison between the British Empire and the Belgian Congo.

Empire: From Conquest to Control - Professor Richard J Evans

How and why European empires between 1880 and the end of the First World War slowly imposed greater control on territories that in many cases existed merely on paper.

Slavery, Ships and Sickness - Professor Stuart Anderson

The history of the ships and shipping that are a central but often-overlooked part of the British involvement in the slave trade.

Formal and Informal Empire in the 19th Century - Professor Richard J Evans

A lecture on the global shift from informal economic and trading empires to the formal imperial empires that still casts its shadow over the world today.

Empire in the Pre-Industrial World - Professor Richard J Evans

The early history of the empires established the great European powers: their origins, their growth, and the reasons why some flourished and some faltered.