A History Of Britain

Covers the period 1780-1832. Britain never had the kind of revolution experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close. In the mid-1770s the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses, the intellectuals of the 'romantic generation' also discovered the plight of the common man, turning nature into a revolutionary force.

Covers the period 1780-1832. Britain never had the kind of revolution experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close. In the mid-1770s the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses, the intellectuals of the 'romantic generation' also discovered the plight of the common man, turning nature into a revolutionary force.

Covers the period 1750-1800. Tonight, the story of how the British Empire came into being through its early settlements - the Caribbean through the sugar plantations (and helped by slavery), the land that later became the United States, and India through the British East India Company - and how it eventually came to dominate the world.