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
- Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918, Katja Hoyer
- The British Empire on trial
- ‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire
- Legacies of the Cement Armada
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
- A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime and the Nigerian Civil War
Women
- The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist
- Florence Nightingale and epidemics
- Women’s friendship in late eighteenth-century America and its relevance to lockdown
- Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
- Real Lives: Surviving the War in the Soviet Union: recollections of a child deportee
- Boudica at Mancetter: The Latin, the Land, The Logistics
Health
- The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist
- The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson
- Disease and healthcare on the Isle of Man
- Real Lives: Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial: Edward George Keeling
- Florence Nightingale and epidemics
- Eyam: the plague village 1665-66
Power
- Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918, Katja Hoyer
- The British Empire on trial
- ‘Power to the people’? Disputed presidential elections in US history
- Out and About: the central Marches of Wales and the Mortimer family of Wigmore
- Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: update
- History Abridged: The Berlin Conference 1884–1885
Science
- The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo
- Come Wind, Come Weather: Storm: Tempest and Other Natural Phenomena within Local Sources
- 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
Religion
- The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia
- The British Empire on trial
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
- Out and About in Cairo
- My Favourite History Place: St James Church, Gerrards Cross
- Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
International Relations
- Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918, Katja Hoyer
- The British Empire on trial
- ‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire
- Legacies of the Cement Armada
- Out and About in Cairo
- Ancient Athenian inscriptions in public and private UK collections
Economics
- The British Empire on trial
- Legacies of the Cement Armada
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
- The ‘workless workers’ and the Waterbury watch
- Origins of the European financial markets
- ‘The cradle of the Industrial Revolution’
Society
- History Abridged: Language and the African continent
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
- The ‘workless workers’ and the Waterbury watch
- The British Census
- Disease and healthcare on the Isle of Man
- Women’s friendship in late eighteenth-century America and its relevance to lockdown