World
The modern world cannot be studied without examining the course, impact and legacy of two world wars, the resources in this section set out to look at both the First and Second World Wars in their global context. The section also includes the Cold War and its impact in Latin America, South-East Asia and parts of Africa. This period also sees the rise and fall of European imperialism and the changing nature of global politics and economics as technology brings different stories from so many parts of the world directly to us. Read more
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What difference has the opening (and closing) of archives after 1991 made to the historiography of the Cold War?
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What have historians been arguing about... decolonisation and the British Empire?
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What is interesting about the world wars?
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What is interesting about the Cold War?
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What is interesting about the interwar period?
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Why White Liberals Fail: United States politics in an election year
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Will China Democratise?
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Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Early Encounters
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Women, War and Revolution
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Women’s friendship in late eighteenth-century America and its relevance to lockdown
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Writing Lilian Harrison into history
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‘Power to the people’? Disputed presidential elections in US history
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‘Savages and rattlesnakes’ Washington, District of Columbia: A British Diplomat's view 1823-5
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‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire
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