Themes
History is the story of all that has passed, which makes it a pretty big subject! So we have tried to break it down here by themes such as politics, religion and international relations, or you can also browse by period. Whether you are an academic, a teacher, a heritage worker, student, someone with a general interest or armchair historian you can find something of interest here.
Politics
- The secret diaries of William Wilberforce
- Capturing public opinion during the Paris Commune of 1871
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
- The British Empire on trial
- ‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire
- Legacies of the Cement Armada
Women
- Cinderella dreams: young love in post-war Britain
- A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley
- Real Lives: The Russian hermit of Cornwall’s caves
- Florence Nightingale and epidemics
- Women’s friendship in late eighteenth-century America and its relevance to lockdown
- Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
Health
- Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century
- Out and About in South London
- The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson
- The experience of Bilston in the cholera epidemic of 1831–32
- Florence Nightingale and epidemics
- Disease and healthcare on the Isle of Man
Power
- Capturing public opinion during the Paris Commune of 1871
- Film: How new is Asia’s ‘new era’?
- The British Empire on trial
- ‘Power to the people’? Disputed presidential elections in US history
- Out and About: the central Marches of Wales and the Mortimer family of Wigmore
- History Abridged: The Berlin Conference 1884–1885
Science
- Glowing in the Dark
- A (non-Western) history of versatility
- The amazing adventures of Pytheas the Greek
- One Giant Leap – 50 years since the Apollo 11 Moon landing
- The Venerable Bede: recent research
- Joseph Banks and his travelling plants, 1787-1810
Religion
- Petit’s impact on our understanding of Victorian life and culture
- The secret diaries of William Wilberforce
- A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley
- Out and About in Cairo
- The British Empire on trial
- The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia
International Relations
- The cultural biography of opium in China
- History Abridged: The City of Alexandria
- Film: How new is Asia’s ‘new era’?
- The British Empire on trial
- ‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire
- Legacies of the Cement Armada
Economics
- Film: How new is Asia’s ‘new era’?
- The British Empire on trial
- Legacies of the Cement Armada
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
- The ‘workless workers’ and the Waterbury watch
- Origins of the European financial markets
Society
- Cinderella dreams: young love in post-war Britain
- Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century
- The cultural biography of opium in China
- History Abridged: Language and the African continent
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
- The ‘workless workers’ and the Waterbury watch