Jeremy Paxman travels the world exploring many different aspects of the British Empire. 5 episodes available, below.
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A Taste for Power
1/5 Jeremy Paxman finds out how a small island came to rule a quarter of the world.
https://youtu.be/oYayBnNoML4
Making Ourselves at Home
2/5 Jeremy continues by looking at how settlers spread the British way of doing things.
https://youtu.be/HF54HG0bgBo
Playing the Game
3/5 Jeremy continues by tracing the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero.
https://youtu.be/jhSL4DqaFfs
Making a Fortune
4/5 Jeremy travels to Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of slaves.
https://youtu.be/nTGPlgt2s58
Doing Good
5/5 The story of how a desire for conquest became a mission to improve the rest of mankind.
https://youtu.be/J_E3k7q8btk
Full Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH8C9rd4TP_ESN-JKAo0ymPdDFtIKAWFT
Also available at BBC website
See also:
- In Our Time: The Dutch East India Company
- Birth of the Anglo-Indian Community I: the Portuguese Empire
- Birth of the Anglo-Indian Community II: the British Empire
- The Presidencies of British India
- Wrecked or Captured, the East India Company Ships that Failed to Arrive
Cover picture credit: “The British Empire Anachronous” by The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick
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