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Britain’s War Memorials
Lecture no. 33 from the course: The Great Tours: England, Scotland, and Wales
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Taught by Professor Patrick N. Allitt | 29 min | Categories: Travel
As a world power, Britain fought many wars—which it has commemorated in many ways. Among other memorials, this lecture takes you to Blenheim Place (commemorating the Duke of Marlborough’s defeat of a great French and Bavarian army in 1704) to Trafalgar Square in London (with its memorial to Horatio Nelson), to Hyde Park Corner (the best place to see war memorials in England), and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey.
36 Lectures
1
Welcome to Britain
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of 30 min
2
Prehistoric Britain
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of 30 min
3
Roman Britain
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of 29 min
4
Anglo-Saxon and Viking Britain
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of 31 min
5
Britain’s Medieval Castles
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of 29 min
6
Britain’s Medieval Cathedrals
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of 31 min
7
Tudor Britain
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of 30 min
8
Magna Carta and Civil War
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of 29 min
9
Enlightenment Britain
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of 30 min
10
Industrial Britain
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of 29 min
11
Victorian Britain
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of 31 min
12
Twentieth-Century Britain
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of 30 min
13
Edinburgh and Glasgow
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of 30 min
14
Wild Scotland: Beyond Edinburgh and Glasgow
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of 29 min
15
North Wales
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of 30 min
16
Cardiff and South Wales
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of 29 min
17
The North of England
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of 30 min
18
The English Midlands
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of 30 min
19
East Anglia
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of 29 min
20
England’s West Country
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of 30 min
21
The Museums of London
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of 29 min
22
London’s Streets and Parks
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of 30 min
23
Buckingham Palace and Parliament
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of 30 min
24
Oxford and Cambridge
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of 28 min
25
Literary Britain: Chaucer and Shakespeare
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of 28 min
26
Literary Britain: The Romantics
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of 29 min
27
Literary Britain: Poets and Novelists
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of 29 min
28
Literary Britain: The 20th Century
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of 29 min
29
Artistic Britain: Painters and Sculptors
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of 28 min
30
Britain’s Estates and Gardens
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of 30 min
31
Legacy of the British Empire
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of 31 min
32
Seafaring Britain
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of 31 min
33
Britain’s War Memorials
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of 29 min
34
Hiking England, Scotland, and Wales
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of 29 min
35
Britain’s Sporting Tradition
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of 31 min
36
How to Think about Visiting Britain
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of 40 min
