Lecture 5 the UK

Victoria (1819-1901)
Lord Melbourne
Her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
The Great Exhibition

(the 1st World Fair) – 1851 – South Kensington Museum – renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Opium Wars (with China)
The Boer Wars (with the Dutch speaking settlers of South Africa)
1854 – the Crimean War – on the side of the Ottoman Empire against Russia
Florence Nightingale – improvement of the women’s conditions

and William Ewart Gladstone
Gladstone – universal education and universal suffrage

64

years

1914-1918
The Labour Party
The General Strike – 1926
1928

1936 – Edward

VII – Wallis Simpson
George VI

September 1939
Winston Churchill - 1940

African and Carribean colonies in the 50s-80s
The British Commonwealth

of Nations – 53 states – 1.8 billion people

crisis
Margaret Thatcher – 1979 – 1990 – the Iron Lady
John

Major
1997 – Tony Blair