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
- Politics present and past
- The Financial Affairs of David Lloyd George
- Real Lives: Independent African
- Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66
- Peterloo August 1819: the English Uprising
- Henry Matthews, Viscount Llandaff: The Unknown Home Secretary
Women
- Lecture: Suffrage lives, 1866 to 1914
- Literary Trails: Haworth and the Brontës
- Elizabeth Jennings: The Inward War
- George Eliot and Warwickshire history
- Dangerous Women of the Scottish Wars of Independence
- Aunt Branwell and the Brontë Legacy
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
- WWI and the flu pandemic
- Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism
- The world in 1913: friendly societies
Power
- The Georgian Papers – a virtual ‘madness’
- Politics present and past
- Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66
- Peterloo: HA interview with Mike Leigh and Jacqueline Riding
- The Tudor monarchy in Ireland
- New light on Rendlesham
Science
- 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
- The Victorian Age
Religion
- The burial dilemma
- A European dimension to local history
- Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland
- St Theobald of Provins and evidence of charcoal-burning
- Out and About in Ryedale
- Anglo-Saxon women and power
International Relations
- ‘You are Legend’: The Welsh Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
- The poppy and remembrance
- Do historical anniversaries matter? Case study: Arnhem 1944
- War Bows
- Real Lives: Independent African
- Moresnet: a small country in a big narrative
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
- The Georgian Papers – a virtual ‘madness’
- The Common Story: A history of Tooting Common
- Willington and the Mowbrays: After the Peasants' Revolt
- Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66
- How hidden are ordinary people in later medieval England?
- Peterloo August 1819: the English Uprising