Loading the player...
Taught by Professor Patrick N. Allitt | 30 min | Categories: History
On "John Bull's Other Island," the potato blight that first struck in 1846 threw millions into near or absolute starvation; sparked mass migration to England, Canada, and the United States; and set off shock waves that crippled England's ruling Tory party for decades....
36 Lectures
1
The Victorian Paradox
0
of 32 min
2
Victoria's Early Reign-1837-61
0
of 30 min
3
The Industrial Revolution-1750-1830
0
of 30 min
4
Railways and Steamships
0
of 31 min
5
Parliamentary Reform and Chartism
0
of 31 min
6
The Upper and Middle Class Woman
0
of 30 min
7
The Working-Class Woman
0
of 31 min
8
The State Church and Evangelical Revival
0
of 31 min
9
The Oxford Movement and Catholicism
0
of 31 min
10
Work and Working-Class Life
0
of 31 min
11
Poverty and the "Hungry Forties"
0
of 30 min
12
Ireland, Famine, and Robert Peel
0
of 30 min
13
Scotland and Wales
0
of 30 min
14
Progress and Optimism
0
of 31 min
15
China and the Opium War
0
of 28 min
16
The Crimean War-1854-1856
0
of 32 min
17
The Indian Mutiny-1857
0
of 31 min
18
Victorian Britain and the American Civil War
0
of 31 min
19
The British in Africa-1840-1880
0
of 30 min
20
Victorian Literature I
0
of 30 min
21
Art and Music
0
of 31 min
22
Science
0
of 31 min
23
Medicine and Public Health
0
of 31 min
24
Architecture
0
of 30 min
25
Education
0
of 31 min
26
Trade Unions and the Labour Party
0
of 32 min
27
Crime and Punishment
0
of 31 min
28
Gladstone and Disraeli-1865-1881
0
of 31 min
29
Ireland and Home Rule
0
of 31 min
30
Democracy and Its Discontents
0
of 31 min
31
The British in Africa-1880-1901
0
of 32 min
32
Later Victorian Literature
0
of 31 min
33
Leisure
0
of 31 min
34
Domestic Servants
0
of 31 min
35
Victoria After Albert-1861-1901
0
of 30 min
36
The Victorian Legacy
0
of 31 min
