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
- The Financial Affairs of David Lloyd George
- Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66
- Real Lives: Independent African
- Peterloo August 1819: the English Uprising
- Henry Matthews, Viscount Llandaff: The Unknown Home Secretary
- The Diabolical Cato-Street Plot
Women
- 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
- Anglo-Saxon women and power
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
- 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
- Anglo-Saxon women and power
- My Favourite History Place: The North Wessex Downs and Cwichelm’s Barrow
- Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, 918-2018
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
- 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
International Relations
- Do historical anniversaries matter? Case study: Arnhem 1944
- War Bows
- Real Lives: Independent African
- Moresnet: a small country in a big narrative
- 24 Hours at Balaclava: 25 October 1854
- My Favourite History Place: Erbil Citadel, Iraq
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 August 1819: the English Uprising
- How hidden are ordinary people in later medieval England?
- Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66
- Crime on the Canals
- Havelock Hall: the East India Company college gymnasium at Addiscombe
- Homes fit for heroes? James Cecil and the public interest