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
- Jeeves and the British Empire
- Filmed lecture: How (not) to historicise the contemporary United States
- Out and About: The castles of Castle Cary
- Kangxi and Louis XIV
- The success of the Salford General Strike of 1911
- Film: Power and Protest in Wales – 1714 to 1785
Women
- Boudicca: facts, fictions and archaeology
- To see the witch: understanding the European witch craze through visual art
- The Lady and the Unicorn
- In conversation with Henrike Lähnemann
- Film: Proto-feminism in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
- Female protagonists in early East India Company history
Health
- Real lives: important lessons from the childhood experiences of Harry Drabble
- Mapping a disability history perspective onto the history of the British Empire
- ‘I am your most troublesome pauper’: disability and the New Poor Law
- Deaf marriages and sign language recognition
- Update: Disability history
- Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England
Power
- Doing history: Exploring behind the scenes in the corridors of power
- Talleyrand and the French Revolution
- Out and About: The castles of Castle Cary
- Virtual Branch Recording: The First King of England
- Kangxi and Louis XIV
- Eastern Nigeria market women and European businesses in colonial Nigeria 1900–29
Science
- Real lives: important lessons from the childhood experiences of Harry Drabble
- Out and about: The Witney Blanket Mills
- Real Lives: Eduard Friedrich Kärger
- Making and breaking Britain’s national energy order
- In conversation with Ayoush Lazikani
- Doing history: reconstructing the life of physician, psychiatrist and anthropologist James Cowles Prichard
Religion
- To see the witch: understanding the European witch craze through visual art
- In conversation with Henrike Lähnemann
- Castle of Convergence: the Muslim settlement of Lucera
- Real Lives: Alexander Stewart
- In conversation with Elizabeth King
- Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course
International Relations
- Relief and resistance in Imre Kiralfy’s siege of Peking (1901)
- Mapping a disability history perspective onto the history of the British Empire
- Jeeves and the British Empire
- Talleyrand and the French Revolution
- VJ Day filmed talks: Global views of Japan and the road to the Pacific War
- Foreign Prisoners of War and Humanitarian Governance in Revolutionary Russia
Economics
- Out and about: The Witney Blanket Mills
- Using financial records to gain insights into medieval society
- Making and breaking Britain’s national energy order
- Film: Finance in Britain and Ireland: 1714 to 1785
- Film: Economic and social change – 1714 to 1785
- Doing history: Contemporary narratives and the legacy of the Dagenham Ford Factory Strike of 1968
Society
- In conversation with David Turner
- Update: Disability history
- Deaf marriages and sign language recognition
- ‘I am your most troublesome pauper’: disability and the New Poor Law
- Broken bodies and racial lessons: disabled Wehrmacht veterans in Nazi Germany
- Real lives: important lessons from the childhood experiences of Harry Drabble
Culture
- Jeeves and the British Empire
- VJ Day filmed talks: Global views of Japan and the road to the Pacific War
- Losing sight of the bigger picture: public policy and the visual arts
- Out and About: Leavesden Country Park
- Out and About: The Black Country Living Museum
- Kangxi and Louis XIV