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The world's first superpower, from empire to commonwealth, 1901-present, Professor Denis Judd

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The world's first superpower

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Professor Denis Judd

Modern scholar

from empire to commonwealth, 1901-present

This course will examine the development of the British Empire from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, via its greatest terretorial extent in 1919 to its eventual decline and end in the years after World War II, and its final transformation in the Commonwealth of independent nations

Lecture 1. The Edwardian Empire, 1901-1914 -- Lecture 2. Making the most of empire, 1901-1914 -- Lecture 3. The empire and WWI, 1914-1919 -- Lecture 4. The 1924 Wembley Empire Exhibition: empire, trade, unity, and disunity -- Lecture 5. Indian nationalism and the British Raj, 1914-1939 -- Lecture 6. Sexuality and the British Empire -- Lecture 7. The first commonwealth: dominion status, the self governing colonies and their relations with Britain -- Lecture 8. Sport and the British Empire -- Lecture 9. The empire-commonwealth and WWII -- Lecture 10. The labour government of 1945-1951 and the empire-commonwealth -- Lecture 11. "Winston's back!": Churchill, the Conservatives, and empire, 1951-1955 -- Lecture 12. The Suez Crisis of 1956-1957 and the "wind of change," 1957-1963 -- Lecture 13. Labour back in power: the Wilson government, 1964-1970 -- Lecture 14. Embracing the commonwealth and winding down the empire, 1970-present

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From empire to commonwealth, 1901-present