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
- Blood and Iron: the violent birth of modern Germany
- Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: update
- Why was it so important to see Dunkirk as a triumph rather than a disaster in 1940?
- German universities under the Nazis
- This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe
- Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool
Women
- Real Lives: Surviving the War in the Soviet Union: recollections of a child deportee
- Boudica at Mancetter: The Latin, the Land, The Logistics
- At home with Amanda Ira Aldridge
- Exploring the witch craze
- 100 years of the 19th Amendment
- The many queens of Ancient Egypt
Health
- Glowing in the Dark
- The NHS: Britain’s National Health Service, 1948-2020
- Black Death to global pandemic: London then and now
- Losing sight of the glory: five centuries of combat surgery
- Havelock Hall: the East India Company college gymnasium at Addiscombe
- English first-aid organisations and the Provisional IRA mainland bombing campaign of 1974
Power
- Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: update
- History Abridged: The Berlin Conference 1884–1885
- History Abridged: POTUS - President of the United States
- Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs
- On Black Lives Matter
- The many queens of Ancient Egypt
Science
- Glowing in the Dark
- A (non-Western) history of versatility
- The amazing adventures of Pytheas the Greek
- One Giant Leap – 50 years since the Apollo 11 Moon landing
- The Venerable Bede: recent research
- Joseph Banks and his travelling plants, 1787-1810
Religion
- Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages
- Monty’s school: the benign side of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- My Favourite History Place: The Chantry Chapel of St Mary on Wakefield Bridge
- Out and About: Tynemouth Priory
- History Abridged: the Acropolis
- Real Lives: Tahereh (Tāhirih)
International Relations
- Blood and Iron: the violent birth of modern Germany
- Monty’s school: the benign side of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- Why was it so important to see Dunkirk as a triumph rather than a disaster in 1940?
- German universities under the Nazis
- Real Lives: Surviving the War in the Soviet Union: recollections of a child deportee
- History Abridged: The Berlin Conference 1884–1885
Economics
- Origins of the European financial markets
- ‘The cradle of the Industrial Revolution’
- The Scottish dream of Darien
- Kings and coins in later Anglo-Saxon England
- Out and about in Zanzibar
- Bristol and the Slave Trade
Society
- Monty’s school: the benign side of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- Volunteers to a man: an industrial workplace goes to war
- Real Lives: Harry Daley
- Film: Writing Black histories, telling Black stories
- Thames Mudlarking: Searching for London’s Lost Treasures
- Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians, Stephen Wade