Maria Misra
Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Keble College, Oxford
3 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureScienceFormer empiresHistorical transcontinental empiresImperialismChartered companiesTrade monopolies, Former monopoliesVictorian eraColonial Indian companiesBritish East India CompanyHistory of foreign trade in ChinaDefunct companies of the United Kingdom, Age of SailHistory1583 establishments in the British Empire, States and territories established in 1583, Former countries in Ireland, States and territories disestablished in 1997, British Empire, Overseas empires
The East India Company
Melvyn Bragg discusses the powerful private trading company that redrew the map of India, built an empire and reinvented the fashions and the foodstuffs of Britain.
26 June 2003
Also featuring: Huw Bowen, Linda Colley
The British Empire
Melvyn Bragg discusses the British Empire, what drove Britain to follow the imperial road and what was its legacy?
8 November 2001
Also featuring: Peter Cain, Catherine Hall
Imperial Science
Melvyn Bragg discusses whether agriculture and an attitude towards nature, or the protection of trade routes was the main impulse that drove British imperial expansion in the 19th century.
1 February 2001
Also featuring: Richard Drayton, Ziauddin Sardar