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
- White heat or hot air? The politics of science in 1960s Britain
- Opinion: the populist politics of Joseph Chamberlain and Donald Trump
- Update: The Princes in the Tower
- Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
- In conversation with Lyndal Roper
- The nature of Charles I’s government
Women
- Recorded webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond
- Finding Bad Bridget: the lives and crimes of Irish immigrant women in America
- Caroline Court Women, 1625–1669
- Real Lives: Mrs Annabel Dott (1868–1937)
- In conversation with Mineke Schipper
- The right to fight: women’s boxing in Britain
Health
- Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England
- Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks
- The right to fight: women’s boxing in Britain
- White City: the world’s first Olympic Stadium
- Real Lives: Beatrice Alexander
- Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc: her missions of mercy, 1899–1932
Power
- Update: The Princes in the Tower
- Edgar Ætheling: what happened to the boy who never became king?
- Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
- Piecing together the life and times of Charles I
- Update: Revisiting the Court of King Charles I
- The nature of Charles I’s government
Science
- Social Darwinism: the myth and its reinvention
- White heat or hot air? The politics of science in 1960s Britain
- More than skin deep: unmasking the history of cold cream
- Out and About: The historical significance of the Botanic Garden in Oxford
- Doing history: reconstructing the life of physician, psychiatrist and anthropologist James Cowles Prichard
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution
Religion
- In conversation with Elizabeth King
- Mercurial justice: a Jesuit chaplain’s view of life in the prisons of sixteenth-century Seville
- Decoding medieval pilgrimage
- ‘By his Majesties authoritie’: worship and religious policy in Caroline Britain and Ireland
- Real Lives: Colonel James Skinner
- The First Crusade, 1095–99
International Relations
- Shadow states and armed struggle
- Real Lives: A German captain’s perspective on the end of WWI
- Films: Brezhnev – Interpretations
- Recruiting volunteers to fight in the First World War
- Films: Lenin – Interpretations
- Film: Lenin, the 1905 Russian Revolution and WWI
Economics
- Doing history: Contemporary narratives and the legacy of the Dagenham Ford Factory Strike of 1968
- Film: The Two German Economies
- History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe
- Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2021 - Rana Mitter
- Legacies of the Cement Armada
- The British Empire on trial
Society
- Real Lives: the long life of Old Tom Parr
- Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
- Finding Bad Bridget: the lives and crimes of Irish immigrant women in America
- In conversation with Lyndal Roper
- Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England
- Mercurial justice: a Jesuit chaplain’s view of life in the prisons of sixteenth-century Seville