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146. Queen Victoria: The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets (Ep 3)

5/6/2024 • 48 min

Across 1851, over 6,000,000 people went to London to see the Great Exhibition. Designed to showcase the very best of what Britain and the empire could offer the world, the event was an incontrovertible success which cemented Britain’s status as the nation at the centre of the world economy. But, with the events of 1857 in India and the extreme levels of violence… Play episode

145. Victoria & Albert (Ep 2)
144. The Making of Queen Victoria (Ep 1)
143. Isabella of Castile: The Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of Granada…
142. Isabella of Castile: Uniting Spain
141. Nur Jahan: The Most Powerful Mughal Woman
140. Nur Jahan: The Light of the World
139. Mrs Genghis Khan
138. The Graceful Reed: Ruling the Islamic Empire
137. Empress Theodora: Making Heaven on Earth
136. Empress Theodora: From the Brothel to the Throne
135. Helena: Queen of the World and Finder of the One True Cross
134. Cleopatra: The Would-Be Empress of Rome
133. Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile
132. Journey to Nalanda and the Library of Jewels
131. Buddhism Goes to China
130. India meets Rome: Making the Image of the Buddha
129. Ashoka: The Great Buddhist Emperor of India
128. The Buddha & The Golden Road
127. Inventing Curry: The British Taste for India
126. Punch & Chilli: The East India Company at the Table
125. The Origin of the Houthis
124. Saddam Hussein vs The Ayatollah
123. Hezbollah: The Party of God
122. Iran & Saudi Arabia: The Rivalry that Split the Islamic World
121. The Fall of the Shah of Shahs
120. The Iranian Revolution: The Rise of Ayatollah Khomeini
119. The Last Shah
118. Iran's First Revolution
117. Nader Shah: The Sword of Persia
116. Isfahan: The City of Dreams
115. The Great Conversion: How Iran became Shia
114. The Persian Renaissance
113. Timur: Scourge of God
112. Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation
111. Shackleton: The Hero of Antarctica
110. Antarctica: The Continent that wouldn’t be Conquered
109. The Endeavour: Into the Unknown
108. The Endeavour & the Great Southern Continent
107. China's Greatest Admiral: The Story of Zheng He
106. The Rise of Islam
105. The Last Great War of Antiquity
104. How Persian Religion Changed the World
103. Alexander the Great: Defeating Darius
102. Alexander the Great: The Conquest of Persia
101. Salamis: Athens’ Revenge
100. Thermopylae: Xerxes, Leonidas, and the 300
99. Marathon and the Rise of Greece
98. Darius the Great: Ruling from India to the Mediterranean
97. Cyrus the Great: Building the First Superpower

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