British colonial history
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British Abolitionists
Opium War
Origins of the Empire
Post Colonial Experience
Potatoe Famine
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youtube.com: The British Empire in Colour part 1
youtube video
5 X 9 min
gresham.ac.uk: "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire"
real video
Gresham.ac.uk: "Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’"
real video
UCTV.com: "Conversations with history: Niall Ferguson on the British Empire
real video
nyu.edu: Niall Ferguson on "Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power"
real video
BBC "Empire and Sea Power"
NPR.org: All Things Considered, "British Empire"
real audio
1 min 35 sec
Military history podcast: The British Empire part 1
mp3
Military history podcast: The British Empire part 2
mp3
webcast.berkeley.edu: European Imperialism at its Zenith
Real Audio
1 hour 17 min 17 sec
imagesofempire.com:Photo archive from the British Empire
The Imperial War Museum
British Pathe (free log-in required)
Britishempire.co.uk
Britain's Small Wars
Mr Wilsons Web World: audio lecture on Imperialism
quicktime
webcast.berkley.edu: "The New Imperialism"
real video
1 hour 18 min
webcast.berkley.edu: "European Imperialism at It's Zenith"
real audio
1 hour 22 min
Listen to Rule Britannia and other patriotic songs
real audio
onpointraadio.org: "The British Empire: lessons for America"
real audio
Guba.com: "BBC A History of Britain: The Wrong Empire"
flash video
fresno.k12.ca.us: lecture "Imperialism"
audio
pluggd.com: Imperialism(continued begins after 6 min intro)
podcast
Amnh.org: virtual trip to Congo in 1909
Nationalgeographic.com: drawings from the journeys of Dr. Livingstone
video.google.com: "Africa: Ep 5 - The Bible and The Gun"
google video
52 min
Images from central Africa 1865-1960
Wnyc.org: "historian A.N. Wilson looks at what led to the decline of The British Empire"
mp3
webcast.rice.edu: History of Colonialism
any format
1 hour
Post Colonial Experience
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Time
The Statute of Westminster(1931) which gave Canada, Australia, New Zealand, New Foundland, Sør Afrika and Ireland self rule
Stanford Humanties Lecture. "Child of the Empire: Racializing subjects in Post WWII Britain"
real video
58 min 7 sec
Aaari.info: "Constructing a national identity in postcolonial India"
real video
60 min
uoregon.edu: "Planting African Memory: The Role of a Scholar in a Post-Colonial World"
real video
Rice University panel "The Kashmir Conflict"
real video
millercenter.virginia.edu: "Diplomacy and the Resolution of Civil Wars in Africa: Liberia as a Case Study"
real audio
1 hour 2 min 56 sec
info.worldbank.org: "Twenty Years of Reform in Africa: A Talk with Dr. Jeffrey Herbst"
real video
Indybay.org: John Pilger's Stealing a Nation
real video
56 min 17 sec
iisd.ca: "Changing Attitudes and Behaviors: The Role of Africa�s Cultural Leaders" lecture by Wole Soyinka
real audio
BBC on this Day: newsreels from Africa after 1950
real video
Video.google.com: "Africa Addio / Farewell Africa (English Subtitles)"
google video
2 hours 19 min
millercenter.virginia.edu:"The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa"
real audio
1 hour 6 min 2 sec
NPR.org: "Slavery's Legacy in West Africa"
real audio
8 min 26 min
Pbs.org: Jeffrey Brown visits "The Short Century", an exhibit documenting Africa's shift from colonialism to independence
real audio
loc.gov: video lecture "End of European Colonial Empires"
real video
1 hour 13 min
loc.gov: video lecture "The African Colonial State and the Encounter with Decolonization" SPEAKER: Crawford Young
real video
1 hour 40 min
British Abolitionists
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Washington University Graduate Lectures: British Zion: Missionaries and politics in 19th century Britain"
flash
libertystory.net: "An Act for Abolishing Slavery throughout the British Colonies " (August 28, 1833 )
NPR.org: "'Bury the Chains': Britain's End to Slave Trade"
real audio
8 min 4 sec
Onpointradio.org: "Bury the Chains"
any format
48 min 37 sec
BBC.com: In our Time, "Slavery and Empire"
real audio
43 min
liverpoolmuseums.org.uk: "Thomas Clarkson: on abolition"
real audio
bbc.com: Woman's hour "Women Humanitarians 1" about women in the abolitionist movement
real audio
gresham.ac.uk: "Slavery- Emancipation in Britain"
real video
over 1 hour
Youku.com: "Amazing Grace" movie about William Wilberforce part 1
flash video
57 min 11 sec
Youku.com: "Amazing Grace" movie about William Wilberforce part 2
flash video
54 min 52 sec
Gresham.ac.uk: "LIVERPOOL AND THE SLAVE TRADE"
real video
55 min 17 sec
google.video.com: "Coolies- How Britain Re-invented Slavery"
google video
59 min
Fora.tv: "Abolition in the British Empire"
flash video
1 hour 8 min 45 sec
ci.columbia.edu: "Liberty and Slavery in the Early British Empire"
real video
3-5 hours
albany.edu: "Rough Crossings: The British Emancipation of Slaves During the American Revolution."
mp3
28 min 21 sec
brh.org.uk: "Scandal! The Slave Profiteers part 1"
mp3
60 min
brh.org.uk: Scandal! The Slave Profiteers part 2
mp3
40 min
brh.org.uk: "Sugar and Tobacco : Drugs of Capitalism"
mp3
15 min
liverpoolmuseums.org.uk: lecture "The floating dungeon: a history of the slave ship"
mp3
1 hour 7 min 57 sec
hayfestival.com: lecture "William Wilberforce- William Hague celebrates the great abolitionist" (free log-in required)
mp3
cba.org.uk: 'Breaking the Chains'
mp3
3 min 20 sec
Origins of the Empire
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p269.html
Frontrow.bc.edu: "Origins of the First British Empire"
real video
Gresham.ac.uk: "India:The Jewel in the Crown"
real video
50 min 39 sec
BBC In Our Time: program on the East India Company
real audio
43 min
BBC.com: Robert Clive: Tearaway to empire builder (audiolinks in the right hand menu)
real audio
5 x 4 min
BBC Shropshire: the historian Keith Pybus talks about Robert Clive
real audio
4 min 49 sec
TheEnglishcollection.com "Clive of India" (1935 movie)
real video
1 hour 33 min 29 sec
Asu.edu: "Cannibals and Missionaries"
real video
42 min 47 sec
Clickable map of the British Empire in Africa
gresham.ac.uk: "Great Britain and the Scramble for Africa"
real video
Stage6.com: TimeLife documentary, Lost Civilizations: Africa, History Denied
divx
51 min 2 sec
BBCs radio series about the history of Africa
real audio
video.google.com: "Africa: Ep 5 - The Bible and The Gun"
google video
52 min
guba.com: Simon Schama's History of Britain "The Wrong Empire", how the empire was born
flash video
58 min
will.uiuc.edu: "Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer" with Tim Jeal, Award Winning Biographer
mp3
50 min 19 sec
will.uiuc.edu: The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton And The Victorian World
mp3
53 min
loc.gov: video lecture "Richard Burton and the Victorian World"
real video
39 min