Lecture 1. The Tudor Empire from the discovery of Newfoundland to the founding of Virginia and the death of Elizabeth I

Lecture 2. Colonies in the New World

Lecture 3. The British in India, c. 1600-1815

Lecture 4. The American Revolution and the restructured Empire

Lecture 5. Australia and New Zealand: convicts, settlers, and self-government

Lecture 6. Ireland: mother country or exploited British colony?

Lecture 7. The Canadian crisis and the spread of internal colonial self-government

Lecture 8. Trade dominion: the profits and commerce of empire

Lecture 9. The British Raj, 1815 to 1904: the high noon of empire in India

Lecture 10. The Suez Canal, Egypt, Sudan, and the Middle East

Lecture 11. The partition of Africa: opening up the dark continent

Lecture 12. Empire builders and empire critics

Lecture 13. Conflict and war in South Africa

Lecture 14. Hurrah for the Jubilee! Queen Victoria's 1897 Diamond Jubilee and the meaning of empire.