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Examine the strengths and foibles of Victorian Britain with an award-winning professor.

Syllabus

01: The Victorian Paradox
02: Victoria's Early Reign-1837-61
03: The Industrial Revolution-1750-1830
04: Railways and Steamships
05: Parliamentary Reform and Chartism
06: The Upper and Middle Class Woman
07: The Working-Class Woman
08: The State Church and Evangelical Revival
09: The Oxford Movement and Catholicism
10: Work and Working-Class Life
11: Poverty and the “Hungry Forties”
12: Ireland, Famine, and Robert Peel
13: Scotland and Wales
14: Progress and Optimism
15: China and the Opium War
16: The Crimean War-1854-1856
17: The Indian Mutiny-1857
18: Victorian Britain and the American Civil War
19: The British in Africa-1840-1880
20: Victorian Literature I
21: Art and Music
22: Science
23: Medicine and Public Health
24: Architecture
25: Education
26: Trade Unions and the Labour Party
27: Crime and Punishment
28: Gladstone and Disraeli-1865-1881
29: Ireland and Home Rule
30: Democracy and Its Discontents
31: The British in Africa-1880-1901
32: Later Victorian Literature
33: Leisure
34: Domestic Servants
35: Victoria After Albert-1861-1901
36: The Victorian Legacy
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Taught by

Patrick N. Allitt

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