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Taught by Professor Patrick N. Allitt | 31 min | Categories: History
Crime was a grave problem for the Victorians. To deal with it, they founded the first modern police forces and prisons, and enacted reforms such as abolishing public executions and the jailing of debtors....
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
