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

Empire

Jack Davenport

History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

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 that came with it, followed by the death of Albert in 1861, Victoria’s rule was not plain-sailing even at this point. Listen as William and Anita discuss Victoria and her interactions with the empire on which the sun never sets. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Email: [email protected] Goalhangerpodcasts.com Assistant Producer: Anouska Lewis Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me, welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan.
0:23.0	And me,
0:34.0	William Darimple.
0:35.0	And we're continuing our series on Queen Victoria today.
0:38.0	And do you want to remind everybody previously on this podcast, William Darimport,
0:42.0	what have we been talking about?
0:43.4	So in our last episode, we were dealing with the potato famine, the tragedy of the potato
0:50.8	famine and this difficulty that we have now to judge Queen Victoria.
0:58.0	By her own lights in her own time she thought she was being incredibly generous as the most high donating person in Britain
1:08.1	to contribute to the potato famine. From our point of view today, it's one of the most scandalous moments of British or English
1:15.8	negligence to the Irish in history because the potato famine is the archetypal evil that the British did to Ireland that led to not only mass starvation
1:28.6	and even cannibalism and unbelievable horrors but also massive emigration of the survivors to America.
1:37.2	And all at the time when Ireland was producing large amounts of food which were being exported for the profit of the Anglia Irish
1:44.5	landowners who owned the beef and the other items that were being exported.
1:50.1	And it's an episode I think which brings us very hard up to how different this era is to us.
1:59.0	It's only 150 years ago, but it is a world so very hard to understand with attitudes to
2:07.3	empire, attitudes to monarchy, attitudes to religion and God, and attitudes to
2:14.0	catastrophes like the famine's incredibly different to those of today and it's one of those
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