Peace, Power and Prosperity Lecture 1 Introduction

The Great Exhibition of 1851

Chartist mass meeting, Kennington Common, 10 April 1848

The Impact of the French Revolution on British politics and society Cruikshank, ‘Massacre at St. Peter’s, or Britons Strike Home!’ (1819)

Urban imperatives and rural idylls Eyre Crowe, ‘The Dinner Hour: Wigan’ (1874) John Constable, ‘The Hay Wain’ (1821)

Social reform and charity extract from Charles Booth’s poverty map of London, c. 1900

The Celtic Regions ‘The Fenian Pest,’ Punch, March 1866 Hugh Cameron. Weary farmer, Scotland.

Empire British Empire, c. 1897

Religion, Science and Doubt Charles Darwin, as caricatured in The Hornet, 1871

Family

Work and organised labour W. Summers, ‘Copenhagen Fields Demonstration’, 1834 Scots coal miners

Leisure Paul Martin, Yarmouth, 1892