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
- ‘A little bird told me’: spies and espionage in the early medieval world
- Bonapartism after Napoleon III: the Prince Imperial and Eugene Loudun
- Ending Camelot: the assassination of John F Kennedy
- Anti-Americanism in Britain during the Second World War
- Women and the French Revolution: the start of the modern feminist movement
- History Abridged: American Policy: theory and practice over 200 years
Women
- Women and the French Revolution: the start of the modern feminist movement
- Real Lives: Beatrice Alexander
- Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain
- Joan Vaux: a remarkable Tudor lady
- Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc: her missions of mercy, 1899–1932
- Excluded by men? Joanna the Mad, patriarchy and a charge of insanity
Health
- Real Lives: Beatrice Alexander
- Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc: her missions of mercy, 1899–1932
- Real Lives: Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
- Out and About in South London
- Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century
- The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson
Power
- Bonapartism after Napoleon III: the Prince Imperial and Eugene Loudun
- Ending Camelot: the assassination of John F Kennedy
- The Coronation of King Charles III
- Film: Key Personalities and Opposition
- Film: Ideas and Ideology
- Film: Germany 1945-1991: Introduction
Science
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution
- Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc: her missions of mercy, 1899–1932
- Real Lives: Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
- Glowing in the Dark
- A (non-Western) history of versatility
- The amazing adventures of Pytheas the Greek
Religion
- The First Crusade, 1095–99
- Jewish settlements in Medieval England
- Secular acts and sacred practices in the Italian Renaissance church interior
- Philip Larkin: appreciating parish churches
- The Jews of Medieval England
- My Favourite History Place: Sawley Abbey
International Relations
- Bonapartism after Napoleon III: the Prince Imperial and Eugene Loudun
- The Legacy of the Z Special Unit in World War II
- The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Anti-Americanism in Britain during the Second World War
- Doomed to fail: America’s intervention in Vietnam
- The First Crusade, 1095–99
Economics
- Film: The Two German Economies
- History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe
- Film: Medlicott Lecture 2021 - Rana Mitter
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
- The British Empire on trial
- Legacies of the Cement Armada
Society
- ‘A little bird told me’: spies and espionage in the early medieval world
- In conversation with Nicholas Radburn
- Forbidden friendships: taverns, nightclubs, bottle bars and emancipation
- Real Lives: Charlie Mitchell, Tuke's top model
- Robert Branford: a faithful servant of Southwark
- Out and About: exploring Lancaster’s ‘glocal’ history online and on foot