Tag: Opium Wars

• Empire: 252. Victorian Narcos: Selling Drugs To The Queen (Ep 6)

  May 18, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/YxBs9l4 Who was Commissioner Lin and how did he crack down on foreign opium in China? Why was Charles Elliot so hopeless that he landed Queen Victoria with a… more ›

• Empire: 255. Victorian Narcos: From Opium To Fentanyl (Ep 9)

  May 15, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/1DlZYhu What led to the Second Opium War? Why wasn’t China colonised by Europeans? When did China start referring to this period as the “century of humiliation” and how… more ›

• Empire: 253. Victorian Narcos: Drug Dealers Lead Britain to War (Ep 7)

  May 8, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/80asOor How did opium traders convince the British Cabinet to wage war on China? Who was Lord Palmerston? Why was China, one of the biggest empires in the world,… more ›