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One of the HA’s aims is to bring you accessible and enjoyable history wherever you are based and whatever amount of time you have to dedicate to it. That's why we work to put together a regular programme of events with a variety of formats and delivery. You might prefer...

Jake Subryan Richards is Assistant Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research lies at the intersection of legal history, the history of the African diaspora, and the history of empires. Join him this September where he will be discussing his first book,...

The Mughal Empire dominated India’s political landscape for the better part of two centuries (1526–1707). At its height, the empire included 150 million subjects and stretched across most of the Indian subcontinent, encompassing 3.2 million kilometers (including parts of modern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan). The Mughals had a wide...

Join Kevin Passmore, Professor of History at Cardiff University, to discuss research related to his new book The Maginot Line: A New History (2025). As well as this latest book Kevin has published on modern French and European History, notably Fascism: A Very Short Introduction (2002 and 2014, third revised...

The coast means something different to everyone. It’s a place of pleasure and reckless pursuits, of fishing, fearless endeavours and a crashing, rugged beauty. The coast is, and always has been, our first line of defence and our springboard to other cultures. Through the lens of 100 carefully selected objects,...

While often viewed as a pariah state existing in isolation, the apartheid project was deeply entwined with global shifts in the 20th century. This webinar explores how international ideologies, Cold War geopolitics, and global anti-apartheid movements both challenged and inadvertently shaped the South African state. By contextualising apartheid within a...

Catalina Micaela was the younger daughter of Philip II of Spain who wrote extensively to her husband Carlo Emanrele I of Savoy. Those letters reveal what the life of a female Spanish royal was like, the events at court and the pressures on the families, providing an insight into Spain...