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This video covers: The start of the British Empire with the early explorers, dating back to Tudor times.
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This video covers: A look at the various trading companies that grew up including the East India Company, the Virginia Company and...
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This video covers: A look at how India became fully integrated into the British Empire.
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This video covers: The founding of the East India Company, how and what it trades with India and the creation of it's own army.
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This video covers: The pros and cons of the British Empire; it takes a look at the positive changes the Empire brought to other...
This video covers: Raw materials from around the Empire helped fire the Industrial Revolution, this video takes a look at what was...
This video covers: A summary of the Empire debate; it recaps on some of the positive and negative impacts and leaves the audience...
This video covers: An explanation of the term 'slave' being the legal property of another
This video covers: Some of the reasons the British were involved in the slave trade and a quote from William Wilberforce's...
This video covers: A slave recounts how he was shackled and had to walk for two weeks till they reached a stone fort on the coast
This video covers: A description of the slave market in the Americas and how the slaves were prepared for sale to make them look...
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This video covers: A slave describes his first encounter with a slave ship; the stench from the hold almost makes him vomit.
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This video covers: The journey from Africa across the Atlantic and the appalling conditions suffered by the slaves on board ship
This video covers: An introduction to the invasion of Zululand by the British and the terrible massacre at the battle of Isandlwana
This video covers: A veteran sailor recounts Captain Cook's first voyage on the Endeavour.
This video covers: A veteran sailor recounts Captain Cook's final voyage aboard HMS Resolution.
