MODERN BRITAIN.

Catalog description

Survey of modern British history from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 until the present. Includes the Georgian era, the industrial revolution, the history of slavery and abolition, the Victorian period, the history of gender and sexuality, the expansion of the British Empire, the history of race and ethnicity, the history of Ireland, the outbreak and legacies of World War One and World War Two, the rise of the welfare state, decolonization, Thatcherism, as well as Brexit and the history of Britain's relationship with Europe.