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
- After the revolution: did Cromwell, Washington and Bonaparte betray revolutionary principles?
- How Sweden almost became a nuclear-armed state – and why it didn’t
- Flight from Kabul: a historical perspective
- Sweden’s forgotten revolution
- The last days of Lord Londonderry
- The secret diaries of William Wilberforce
Women
- Harriet Kettle, Victorian rebel
- Real Lives: Rebecca West
- Real Lives: Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
- 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
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
- Real Lives: Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial: Edward George Keeling
- Florence Nightingale and epidemics
- The experience of Bilston in the cholera epidemic of 1831–32
Power
- After the revolution: did Cromwell, Washington and Bonaparte betray revolutionary principles?
- The last days of Lord Londonderry
- 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
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 Duchy of Courland and a Baltic colonial venture across the ocean
- From Lithuania to Lancashire: life and death in the pursuit of freedom
- How Sweden almost became a nuclear-armed state – and why it didn’t
- Flight from Kabul: a historical perspective
- Sweden’s forgotten revolution
- The cultural biography of opium in China
Economics
- History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe
- Film: How new is Asia’s ‘new era’?
- The ‘workless workers’ and the Waterbury watch
- The British Empire on trial
- Legacies of the Cement Armada
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
Society
- Harriet Kettle, Victorian rebel
- The Great Spa Towns of Europe: a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Civilian expertise in war
- Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns
- Cinderella dreams: young love in post-war Britain
- Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century