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
- Boudica at Mancetter: The Latin, the Land, The Logistics
- History Abridged: POTUS - President of the United States
- On Black Lives Matter
- The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639-51
- 100 years of the 19th Amendment
- What difference has the opening (and closing) of archives after 1991 made to the historiography of the Cold War?
Women
- Boudica at Mancetter: The Latin, the Land, The Logistics
- At home with Amanda Ira Aldridge
- Exploring the witch craze
- 100 years of the 19th Amendment
- The many queens of Ancient Egypt
- Real Lives: Tahereh (Tāhirih)
Health
- The NHS: Britain’s National Health Service, 1948-2020
- Black Death to global pandemic: London then and now
- Losing sight of the glory: five centuries of combat surgery
- Havelock Hall: the East India Company college gymnasium at Addiscombe
- English first-aid organisations and the Provisional IRA mainland bombing campaign of 1974
- The development of the Department of Health
Power
- History Abridged: POTUS - President of the United States
- Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs
- On Black Lives Matter
- The many queens of Ancient Egypt
- Space and behaviour at the court of Alexander the Great
- Podcast: Defacing the Past or Resisting Oppression?
Science
- 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
- Admiral Lord Mountbatten: man of science and royal role model
Religion
- Sacred waters: Bath in the Roman Empire
- History Abridged: the Acropolis
- The many queens of Ancient Egypt
- Out and About in Paestum
- Real Lives: Tahereh (Tāhirih)
- Michael Wood, Hadrian and the Making of Early England
International Relations
- Boudica at Mancetter: The Latin, the Land, The Logistics
- Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs
- In Cold War Skies: NATO and Soviet Air Power, 1949-89
- Rome: City in Terror – The Nazi Occupation 1943-44
- What difference has the opening (and closing) of archives after 1991 made to the historiography of the Cold War?
- Enduring Civilisation: cities and citizens in the ‘Aztec Empire’
Economics
- ‘The cradle of the Industrial Revolution’
- The Scottish dream of Darien
- Kings and coins in later Anglo-Saxon England
- Out and about in Zanzibar
- Bristol and the Slave Trade
- Podcast Series: The Renaissance
Society
- The NHS: Britain’s National Health Service, 1948-2020
- At home with Amanda Ira Aldridge
- Grave matters
- ‘The cradle of the Industrial Revolution’
- Exploring the witch craze
- On Black Lives Matter