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
- Charles I and the People of England
- ‘Cromwell’s trunks’
- The Borgia: from fact to fiction
- Private Lives of the Tudors
- Homosexuality in Britain Since 1967
- 1968: the year of reckoning
Women
- A History of Women in 100 Objects
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett on telling an HA branch about a book
- The Borgia: from fact to fiction
- Rotha Lintorn-Orman: the making of a fascist leader
- Podcast Series: The Women's Movement
- Women in British Coal Mining
Health
- 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
- The world in 1913: friendly societies
Power
- Charles I and the People of England
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett on telling an HA branch about a book
- The Borgia: from fact to fiction
- Private Lives of the Tudors
- ‘Cromwell’s trunks’
- Ending the French Revolution
Science
- Joseph Banks and his travelling plants, 1787-1810
- Tank development
- The Victorian Age
- Podcast: The Life and Significance of Alan Turing
- Filmed Interview: The Women of Bletchley Park
- Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet
Religion
- The Borgia: from fact to fiction
- The end of the Roman Empire
- The Aztec Empire: a surprise ending?
- Podcast Series: Religion in the UK
- Private Lives of the Saints (Film)
- Podcast Series: The Anglo-Saxons
International Relations
- Journeys Home: Indian forces and the First World War
- From Bedfordshire to the Arctic Circle
- The Northern Limit: Britain, Canada and Greenland, 1917-20
- We will remember them: well, most of them
- Hitler’s British Isles: The Real Story of the Occupied Channel Islands
- Paradise in Chains
Economics
- Out and about in Zanzibar
- Bristol and the Slave Trade
- Podcast Series: The Renaissance
- Currency and the Economy in Tudor and early Stuart England
- From Sail to Steam
- Podcast Series: Origins of the European Financial Markets
Society
- A fit country for heroes?
- Britain’s Jews and the First World War
- Out and About with homing pigeons in the Great War
- We will remember them: well, most of them
- Charles I and the People of England
- A History of Women in 100 Objects