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 by themes. So whether you are an academic, a teacher, a heritage worker, student, someone with a general interest or armchair historian you can probably find an area that most captivates you here. If you love all history or you’re not sure where to start then using a theme as your filter will probably work – give it a go you never know where you might end up.
Politics
- Recorded webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Lines we Draw
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949
- Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley
- Recorded webinar: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War
Religion
- Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials
- Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course
- Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
- Virtual Branch Recording: Locating and Mapping the Jews of Medieval Lincoln
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic
- Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals
LGBTQ+
- LGBTQ+ History Month 2026
- Queer Britain and Public History
- An Interview with Matt Cook, Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexuality
- Medieval Sexualities: Richard I and Philip Augustus
- Early Modern LGBTQ+ History
- The US LGBTQ+ Movement from the 1990s
Women
- Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials
- Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course
- Recorded webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond
- Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
- Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy
Science
- Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome
- The Early Royal Society: From Bacon to Newton
- The Challenger Expedition
- The Life & Significance of Alan Turing
- The Royal Society & the Royal Navy
- The Legacy of Joseph Banks
Society
- Recorded webinar series: The power of maps
- Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials
- Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course
- Recorded webinar series: Jane Austen and Georgian England
- Recorded webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond
- Virtual Branch: Birds and British History
Power
- Recorded webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism
- Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy
- Recorded webinar series: Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the UN Convention on Genocide
- Virtual Branch recording: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom
- Film: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire
Economics
- Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall
- The Peasants’ (Great) Revolt
- Chartism and the Anti-Corn Law League
- Abolition of Slavery
- Radical Protest in the Nineteenth Century
- Workers’ Rights and Trade Unions
Culture
- Virtual Branch: Birds and British History
- Recorded webinar series: The history that Shakespeare gave us
- Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England
- Film: A conversation on Goethe with A.N. Wilson
- Virtual Branch recording: Tudor Liveliness?
- The Western magical tradition
Kings & Queens
- Recorded webinar series: The history that Shakespeare gave us
- Recorded webinar: Henry VIII on Tour
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy
- Virtual Branch Recording: From Pirates to Princes: Normans in Eleventh Century Europe
- Virtual Branch recording: Empires of the Normans
- Medieval Sexualities: Richard I and Philip Augustus
International Relations
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Lines we Draw
- Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era
- Recorded webinar: Researching the history of migration and refugees in Europe
- Recorded webinar: Histories of Indigenous peoples of North America
- Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals
- Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall