The Victorian 'Grand Tour' - Professor Richard J Evans, Gresham College history lecture

Tourism for the Victorian era was something very different from what it is today, and a part of this was their belief in the 'backwardness' of Europe in comparison to England.
Gresham College Professor, Richard J Evans, explains the sorts of attitudes that Victorians taking a Grand Tour held with regards to the countries they visited.

This is the 2nd part of 'The Victorians: Empire and Race'.
The full lecture is available (in 10 parts) here on YouTube, or it can be downloaded (along with the other lectures by Professor Evans, and all of our other lectures) in its complete form from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...

Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website.
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