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Video and Podcast Links
“Early Victorian tea set”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/FWYgWOCSSpKKuF3pctC6tA
This 15 minute podcast discusses the global economy of the 19th century, especially regarding tea.
“Empire’s Opium Trade”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBjKBWkya0
A BBC overview of the interaction between China and England that led to the Opium War.
Web Links
All Empires Online History Community
http://www.allempires.com/
Website dedicated to assembling materials on all historical empires, including those of the nineteenth century.
The British Presence in India in the 18th Century
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/east_india_01.shtml
The BBC looks back at its colonial past and its presence in India. Topics include the East India Company, regional politics, company government and territorial expansion.
The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project
http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/1871diary/transcriptions.htm
The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a series of faded, illegible texts produced by the famous Victorian explorer when stranded without ink or writing paper in Central Africa.