Origins of the First World War, pt. 9 -- Great Britain
[Audio Lecture] We consider the efforts of the British state, in the Victorian era and in the early 20th century, to maintain its position as the premier naval and imperial power on Earth, and to contain the political and military challenges from the borderlands of the empire, the German challenge from Europe, and the series of internal threats to the British social system -- including the radicalized labour and women's suffrage movements and the bitter fight over Irish Home Rule, which brought the United Kingdom to the brink of civil war mere weeks before the assassination in Sarajevo.
Image: Liberal Party propaganda poster promoting the People's Budget, ca. 1910.
Suggested further reading: George Dangerfield, "The Strange Death of Liberal England."
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Listened twice. Absolutely wonderful. Thank you!
Looking forward to listening to this. Good compromise on "audio" designation :)
First and having come at this from an Irish lens, I mean reading on the period, I am indeed shocked that the liberal party so suddenly lost power in the mid-1920s. Certainly something must have happened other than David Lloyd George nevertheless I have to write that Ireland amounted to the stupidest thing ever. Although I am in all respects pro-Irish, due to religion mostly, I cannot but sympathise with the Tory position of appease them into the union, indeed the Tories get unjustly blamed for all Ireland's woes when it was William Pitt the Younger who wanted to emancipate Catholics, indeed an Anglo-Irishmen eventually did it, and it was the Tories who supported the Irish during An Drochshaol (Seriously, it boggles the mind.).