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 Diabolical Cato-Street Plot
- Peterloo: HA interview with Mike Leigh and Jacqueline Riding
- Out and About in Derry/Londonderry
- Dangerous Women of the Scottish Wars of Independence
- The Scottish dream of Darien
- Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland
Women
- Elizabeth Jennings: The Inward War
- George Eliot and Warwickshire history
- Dangerous Women of the Scottish Wars of Independence
- Aunt Branwell and the Brontë Legacy
- Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, 918-2018
- Anglo-Saxon women and power
Health
- 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
- Epidemic disease in Restoration London (Film)
- WWI and the flu pandemic
- Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism
Power
- Peterloo: HA interview with Mike Leigh and Jacqueline Riding
- The Tudor monarchy in Ireland
- Anglo-Saxon women and power
- My Favourite History Place: The North Wessex Downs and Cwichelm’s Barrow
- Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, 918-2018
- New light on Rendlesham
Science
- 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
- The Victorian Age
- Out and About: Charles Darwin, a voyage of discovery
Religion
- The burial dilemma
- A European dimension to local history
- St Theobald of Provins and evidence of charcoal-burning
- Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland
- Anglo-Saxon women and power
- Out and About in Ryedale
International Relations
- The peace treaties of 1919
- My Favourite History Place: Erbil Citadel, Iraq
- Britain’s Jews in the First World War
- The Scottish dream of Darien
- The Tudor monarchy in Ireland
- The Palestinians and British Perfidy: The Tragic Aftermath of the Balfour Declaration of 1917
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
- Currency and the Economy in Tudor and early Stuart England
Society
- Crime on the Canals
- Havelock Hall: the East India Company college gymnasium at Addiscombe
- The burial dilemma
- Homes fit for heroes? James Cecil and the public interest
- The Diabolical Cato-Street Plot
- Peterloo: HA interview with Mike Leigh and Jacqueline Riding