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
- Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
- How is the source base of the twentieth century different from that of earlier periods?
- Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman who Shaped Modern Britain
- The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave
- What is interesting about the Cold War?
- Podcast: Defacing the Past or Resisting Oppression?
Women
- Real Lives: Tahereh (Tāhirih)
- The many queens of Ancient Egypt
- Real Lives: Maria Rye’s emigration home for destitute little girls
- Perfect liberty and uproar: a short case study
- My Favourite History Place: The Beguinage at Bruges
- The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria met Patrick
Health
- 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
- Film: London’s Dreaded Visitation – Epidemic disease in Restoration London
Power
- The many queens of Ancient Egypt
- Space and behaviour at the court of Alexander the Great
- Podcast: Defacing the Past or Resisting Oppression?
- Film: Tudor Royal Authority
- Film: Domestic Politics and Tudor Royal Authority – discussion
- Film: Foreign Relations and Tudor Royal Authority – discussion
Science
- 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
- Tank development in the First World War
Religion
- History Abridged: the Acropolis
- The many queens of Ancient Egypt
- Out and About in Paestum
- Sacred waters: Bath in the Roman Empire
- Real Lives: Tahereh (Tāhirih)
- Michael Wood, Hadrian and the Making of Early England
International Relations
- Enduring Civilisation: cities and citizens in the ‘Aztec Empire’
- What is interesting about the Cold War?
- The Devil’s Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944
- Migration into the UK in the early twenty-first century
- The great British postwar exodus
- What is interesting about the interwar period?
Economics
- 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
- From Sail to Steam
Society
- Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
- How is the source base of the twentieth century different from that of earlier periods?
- Enduring Civilisation: cities and citizens in the ‘Aztec Empire’
- The emergence of the first civilisations
- The many queens of Ancient Egypt
- Out and About in Paestum