Lecture 1. The Edwardian Empire, 1901-1914

Lecture 2. Making the most of empire, 1901-1914

Lecture 3. The empire and WWI, 1914-1919

Lecture 4. The 1924 Wembley Empire Exhibition: empire, trade, unity, and disunity

Lecture 5. Indian nationalism and the British Raj, 1914-1939

Lecture 6. Sexuality and the British Empire

Lecture 7. The first commonwealth: dominion status, the self-governing colonies and their relations with Britain

Lecture 8. Sport and the British Empire

Lecture 9. The empire-commonwealth and WWII

Lecture 10. The labour government of 1945-1951 and the empire-commonwealth

Lecture 11. "Winston's back!": Churchill, the Conservatives, and empire, 1951-1955

Lecture 12. The Suez Crisis of 1956-1957 and the "wind of change," 1957-1963

Lecture 13. Labour back in power: the Wilson government, 1964-1970

Lecture 14. Embracing the commonwealth and winding down the empire, 1970-present.