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Taught by Professor Patrick N. Allitt | 31 min | Categories: History
Where were the first railways in Britain-and hence the world-built? What was the "parent" technology from which they were derived? And what other advances in transport did they help lead to?...
36 Lectures
1
The Victorian Paradox
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of 32 min
2
Victoria's Early Reign-1837-61
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of 30 min
3
The Industrial Revolution-1750-1830
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of 30 min
4
Railways and Steamships
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of 31 min
5
Parliamentary Reform and Chartism
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of 31 min
6
The Upper and Middle Class Woman
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of 30 min
7
The Working-Class Woman
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of 31 min
8
The State Church and Evangelical Revival
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of 31 min
9
The Oxford Movement and Catholicism
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of 31 min
10
Work and Working-Class Life
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of 31 min
11
Poverty and the "Hungry Forties"
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of 30 min
12
Ireland, Famine, and Robert Peel
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of 30 min
13
Scotland and Wales
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of 30 min
14
Progress and Optimism
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of 31 min
15
China and the Opium War
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of 28 min
16
The Crimean War-1854-1856
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of 32 min
17
The Indian Mutiny-1857
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of 31 min
18
Victorian Britain and the American Civil War
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of 31 min
19
The British in Africa-1840-1880
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of 30 min
20
Victorian Literature I
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of 30 min
21
Art and Music
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of 31 min
22
Science
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of 31 min
23
Medicine and Public Health
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of 31 min
24
Architecture
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of 30 min
25
Education
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of 31 min
26
Trade Unions and the Labour Party
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of 32 min
27
Crime and Punishment
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of 31 min
28
Gladstone and Disraeli-1865-1881
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of 31 min
29
Ireland and Home Rule
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of 31 min
30
Democracy and Its Discontents
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of 31 min
31
The British in Africa-1880-1901
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of 32 min
32
Later Victorian Literature
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of 31 min
33
Leisure
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of 31 min
34
Domestic Servants
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of 31 min
35
Victoria After Albert-1861-1901
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of 30 min
36
The Victorian Legacy
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of 31 min
