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Jul 20, 2021 · Jeremy Paxman continues his account of Britain's empire. He travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of slaves, to Calcutta...
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Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the British Empire. He begins by asking how such a small country got such a big head and came to rule a quarter of the worl...
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Empire: With Jeremy Paxman, Michael Palin, Ashley Jackson, Sadiq Al-Mahdi. Written and presented by English broadcaster, journalist, and author Jeremy Paxman, this richly detailed documentary follows the rise of the British Empire.
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- 2012-02-27
- Documentary, History
- Jeremy Paxman, Michael Palin, Ashley Jackson
Sep 6, 2014 · n the final part of his personal account of Britain's empire, Jeremy Paxman tells the extraordinary story of how a desire for conquest became a mission to improve the rest of mankind,...
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Jeremy Dickson Paxman[1][2] (born 11 May 1950) is an English former broadcaster, journalist and author. Born in Leeds, Paxman was educated at Malvern College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate newspaper Varsity.
Empire is a 2012 docuseries co-produced and written by the BBC and Open University and presented by Jeremy Paxman. Charting the rise of the British Empire from the trading companies of India to the rule over a quarter of the world's population and its legacy in the modern world.
Nov 13, 2011 · We have had so many histories of the British Empire recently that there is something admirable in the plain name of Jeremy Paxman's book, Empire.
