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
- Dangerous Women of the Scottish Wars of Independence
- The Scottish dream of Darien
- Out and About in Derry/Londonderry
- Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland
- The Palestinians and British Perfidy: The Tragic Aftermath of the Balfour Declaration of 1917
- Anglo-Saxon women and power
Women
- Dangerous Women of the Scottish Wars of Independence
- Aunt Branwell and the Brontë Legacy
- Anglo-Saxon women and power
- Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, 918-2018
- A History of Women in 100 Objects
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett on telling an HA branch about a book
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
- The Tudor monarchy in Ireland
- New light on Rendlesham
- Anglo-Saxon women and power
- My Favourite History Place: The North Wessex Downs and Cwichelm’s Barrow
- Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, 918-2018
- The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East
Science
- The Venerable Bede: recent research
- 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
Religion
- St Theobald of Provins and evidence of charcoal-burning
- Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland
- The Venerable Bede: recent research
- Out and About in Ryedale
- Anglo-Saxon women and power
- The Borgia: from fact to fiction
International Relations
- Britain’s Jews in the First World War
- The Tudor monarchy in Ireland
- The Scottish dream of Darien
- The Palestinians and British Perfidy: The Tragic Aftermath of the Balfour Declaration of 1917
- Alfred versus the Viking Great Army
- The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and Europe
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
- Peterloo: HA interview with Mike Leigh and Jacqueline Riding
- The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers
- The Parish Atlas of England
- Out and About in Derry/Londonderry
- The Great Famine
- Kings and coins in later Anglo-Saxon England