# Britain in the Twentieth Century

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Sir Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, History
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/britain-twentieth-century)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

During the 20th century, Britain underwent a major transformation. A country in which a law-abiding individual would hardly notice the existence of the state had become one in which, from the cradle to the grave, no one could avoid it. An empire controlling the destiny of one-quarter of the human race, having no allies because she needed none, had become an offshore island with an ambiguous relationship towards the Continent.

## Lectures

1. [Britain in the 20th Century - Progress and Decline: The Character of Twentieth Century Britain](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/67a81a1ae93e) (YouTube)
2. [Britain in the 20th Century: Responses to Decline, 1895-1914](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/cb38f4df9df9) (YouTube)
3. [Britain in the 20th Century: The Great War and its Consequences](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/890b0e4b9293) (YouTube)
4. [Britain in the 20th Century: The Economic Crisis and its Consequences](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/4e228d211247) (YouTube)
5. [Britain in the 20th Century: "Appeasement"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/7d91e7fea8e1) (YouTube)
6. [Britain in the 20th Century: The Road to War](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/813c39dd8da9) (YouTube)
7. [Britain in the 20th Century: The Character of the Post-war Period](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/b54b854e9240) (YouTube)
8. [Britain in the 20th Century: The Attempt to Construct a Socialist Commonwealth, 1945-1951](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/a6e97e4477e6) (YouTube)
9. [Britain in the 20th Century: The Conservative Reaction, 1951-1965](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/e2548f7fd7b2) (YouTube)
10. [Britain in the 20th Century: The Collapse of the Postwar Settlement, 1964-1979](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/3895a4e903f0) (YouTube)
11. [Britain in the 20th Century: Thatcherism, 1979-1990](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/c9b43fec4c40) (YouTube)
12. [Britain in the 20th Century: A new consensus? 1990-2001](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-britain-twentieth-century/12caddfc57f4) (YouTube)