Timewatch · SEASON 8
An Age of Empire
Episode 2 · 1989-02-08
- Documentary
Episode overview
What effect did Charlie Chaplin have on the sale of tea? What first caused the sudden and surprising popularity of tennis and golf? And to what extent was the middle class of England responsible for changing an era of optimism and peace into the nightmare of the First World War? Eric Hobsbawm, one of Britain's leading historians, offers some insight into the 19th century and describes a world that was about to disappear for ever.
50 minutes
Season 8 episodes
1. Light in the Dark1989-01-11
2. An Age of Empire1989-02-08
3. Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor1989-04-05
4. Playing with History1989-05-03
5. Witnesses1989-05-31
6. The Night of the Long Knives1989-07-27
7. Summer of the Bomb1989-08-09
8. The Land of Lost Content1989-09-06
9. Trotsky1989-10-04
10. Fascist Legacy: 1: A Promise Fulfilled1989-11-01
11. Fascist Legacy: 2: A Pledge Betrayed1989-11-08
