The Commonwealth of Nations-
Professor R. COUPLAND , C.I.E. (Fellow of All Souls College, and Beit Professor of Colonial History in the University of Oxford) : ' The
First British Empire and its Fall '
Professor Coupland starts his survey of the present constitution and function of the British Empire with the first of three talks devoted to an outline of its history. He deals tonight with the break-up of the first British Empire in the New World, which came in the reign of George III with the revolt of the North American
Colonies.