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
- My Favourite History Place: Gladstone’s Library at Hawarden
- Politics present and past
- The Financial Affairs of David Lloyd George
- Real Lives: Independent African
- Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66
- Peterloo August 1819: the English Uprising
Women
- Gone with the Wind: a great book?
- Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade
- Out and About in Haworth
- Lecture: Suffrage lives, 1866 to 1914
- Literary Trails: Haworth and the Brontës
- Elizabeth Jennings: The Inward War
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
- Politics present and past
- The Georgian Papers – a virtual ‘madness’
- 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
- 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 Memory of a Saint: Managing the legacy of St Bernard of Clairvaux
- A European dimension to local history
- The burial dilemma
- Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland
- St Theobald of Provins and evidence of charcoal-burning
- Out and About in Ryedale
International Relations
- Holocaust Memorial Day 2020
- Linking Law: Viking and medieval Scandinavian law in literature and history
- ‘You are Legend’: The Welsh Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
- The poppy and remembrance
- Do historical anniversaries matter? Case study: Arnhem 1944
- War Bows
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
- From Sail to Steam
Society
- Linking Law: Viking and medieval Scandinavian law in literature and history
- Gone with the Wind: a great book?
- Exploring local sources
- Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade
- My Favourite History Place: Gladstone’s Library at Hawarden
- The Georgian Papers – a virtual ‘madness’
Culture
- Does historical fiction matter for children?
- Out and About in Haworth
- Linking Law: Viking and medieval Scandinavian law in literature and history
- The Memory of a Saint: Managing the legacy of St Bernard of Clairvaux
- Blurred Lines: the ever-decreasing distinction between fiction and nonfiction
- Show and Tell: three Branch book events