Victorian History — The British Empire, an Overview

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General

• A Timeline of British History
• British Empire: An Introduction
• Fear of losing markets and the 'new imperialism' of the 1880s
• The Industrial Revolution, Textiles, and Empire
• Ambivalence, Economy, and Empire in Victorian Britain
• Disraeli's Imperial Policies
• Why did the British Empire expand so rapidly between 1870 and 1900?
• The Role of the Victorian Army
• Imperial and Postimperial Rhetorics of Benevolence. A Review of Helen Gilbert and Chris Tiffin's Burden or Benefit?
• Preparing Children for Empire: “ Introduction,” Megan E. Norcia's X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children

Individual Colonies

• Australia
• Peter Miller Cunningham’s Two Years in New South Wales (1827)
• Australia in Victorian literature
  • Dickens's Great Expectations
• Vice-Admiral Arthur Phillip (1738-1814), first governor of New South Wales and founder of Sydney, Australia
• Australia Overview
(in the Postcolonial Literature Web)
• Burma
• How Burma entered the Empire
• Photographs of Burma
(15 screens)
• Gibraltar
• Gibraltar, an English territory with southern characteristics (Video produced and shared by Jyskebank.tv, a Danish online tv station broadcasting in English)
• Hong Kong
• England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-60
• Commissioner Lin Ze-xu's Letter to Queen Victoria
• The Nemesis — Great Britain's Secret Weapon in the Opium Wars, 1839-60
• The Principle of Extraterritoriality and the Opium Wars, 1839-60
• The China Question in Punch, January to June 1857
• India
  • Victorian India (sitemap/overview)
  • India: An Introduction
  • The East India Company
• Ireland
  • Ireland (sitemap)
  • Britain and Ireland 1789-1801
  • Another View: Why Ireland Wasn't a Colony
  • "An Éirinneach nó Sassanach tú?" — Are You Irish or English?
  • The Irish Famine: 1845-49
  • Science and Empire in Victorian Ireland: The Evidence of British Association Meetings in Ireland
  • Anti-Irish Prejudice
• Jamaica
• Jamaica and the Governor Eyre Controversy
• Race and Religion in the Victorian Age: Charles Kingsley, Governor Eyre and the Morant Bay Rising
• Malta
• Sitemap
• New Zealand
  • New Zealand
  (in the Postcolonial Literature Web)
  • New Zealand in Victorian Literature
• South Africa, Rhodesia, and Related Colonies (Republic of South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
  • Ghana
  • Nigeria
  • South Africa: A Chronology
  • Boer War
  • 15041 Private Joseph L. Vince
  , Royal Canadian Regiment, Veteran of the Boer War
  • Zimbabwe

Related Web Resources

• Mike Wynn's materials on the British Empire

Related Issues in Victorian Political History

• The Anti-Slavery Campaign in Britain
• Colonial Theory in 1849 — E. G. Wakefield
• Crimean War
• Economics: An Overview
• T. F. Mills's Landforces of Britain, the Empire, and Commonwealth
(U. of Denver)
• Tory
(see also Conservative Party)
• Whig
• Prime Ministers
  • Sir Robert Peel
  • Benjamin Disraeli: A Chronology
  • William Gladstone: A Chronology
• Other major figures
  • General Charles Gordon
• Race and Class Overview
• The Crystal Palace International Exhibition of 1851
• Victorian Culture Shock

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Last modified 11 July 2011