We are delighted to be joined by respected author and journalist A.N. Wilson to talk about his new book The Wise and their Works: The Legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851, which explores the people behind that pivotal event and the ambitious ideas that helped to define a century....

What really paid for the ballgowns, portraits and country estates of Georgian Britain? Historian Miranda Kaufmann peels back the polished veneer of Britain’s heiresses to reveal fortunes forged in Caribbean slavery. Beneath the elegance of marriage markets and inheritance battles lies a darker story of exploitation, empire and human resilience....

In the Curriculum and Assessment review, the importance of oracy has been highlighted and strengthened across all subjects. However, this can lead to generic approaches. In this film in partnership with the English Association, we examine oracy in both subjects, looking at what where there is common ground and what...

In this open-access recorded webinar you’ll hear from teacher educators with advice and guidance to help you to make plans and get the most out of your history teacher training, whichever route you are taking.

Have you ever felt that teaching significance at Key Stage 4 is hard with a limited cast of characters? Do students ask questions that you don’t have the resources to answer? Are you stuck for sources that push the standard narratives of key topics? These four workshops will fix that:...

During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the crusaders constructed tens of castles across the Middle East, some merely small watchtowers, others massive strongholds or fortress cities - but why did the crusaders place so much importance on fortifications? Nicholas Morton explores the development of this remarkable phenomenon asking key questions...

While often viewed as a pariah state existing in isolation, the apartheid project was deeply entwined with global shifts in the 20th century. This webinar explores how international ideologies, Cold War geopolitics, and global anti-apartheid movements both challenged and inadvertently shaped the South African state. By contextualising apartheid within a...

In this webinar, Professor Rosamund Oates shares her research for her new book Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England (2026). Professor Oates is an expert in the historical cultures of early modern England and is passionate about exploring previously unknown stories of deaf and disabled people, using rigorous scholarly...

Since the end of the Second World War, there has been much talk of 'revolutions' in gender relationships and sexual behaviour. Many observers have pointed to significant increases in women's participation in politics and paid employment, of new sexual identities and the emergence of a more sexually expressive culture, and...

The Crusades were traditionally studied as an extension of western European history. In recent decades, however, historians have begun to study the Crusades from the perspective of Middle Eastern history, through sources left behind by local Muslims as well as Eastern Christians. This presentation will discuss this shift in the...

In this webinar historian Shane O’Rourke – a specialist in late-Imperial Russian society and ethnicities, including the Cossacks – explores society under the last three Tsars, examining Russification in the western Russian borderlands, Russian settler colonialism, the Caucasus and deportation, and current historiographical trends.

2025 was the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – a conflict that defined the twentieth century and still has an influence on relationships and attitudes today. In this online short course, we welcome academics from institutions across the UK and abroad to contribute to a...

The French Revolution 1789–99 was not just a turning point in French history but also for the other nations of Europe and beyond. The physical and political repercussions of the events and those that followed it had an immediate impact on other monarchies and empires as well as on the...

The coast means something different to everyone. It’s a place of pleasure and reckless pursuits, of fishing, fearless endeavours and a crashing, rugged beauty. The coast is, and always has been, Britain's first line of defence and springboard to other cultures. In this talk public historian Sally Coulthard delves into...

What was life really like for a Spanish royal woman? Catalina Micaela, the younger daughter of Philip II of Spain, wrote extensively to her husband Carlo Emanrele I of Savoy giving fascinating insights into the events at court and the pressures on the families, providing a glimpse into sixteenth-century Spain and...

Session 1: What is digital literacy – and why history sits at the centre of it This session establishes a shared, research-informed definition of digital literacy and distinguishes related terms (media literacy, information literacy, critical digital literacy, data literacy). Drawing on frameworks including Eshet-Alkalai’s six-component model (photovisual, reproduction, information, branching, socio-emotional,...

This short course looks at the Roman arrival, settlement and legacy of the Roman presence in Britain. It also explores the writings by those who visited the island during that period and how the politics of Empire and leadership fed into wider Roman society. Closing talks will also look at the...

We all know that historical events take place somewhere, but how important is that somewhere - and especially its materiality - in enabling or hindering or shaping those events? That is a question that historian Tim Cole has been asking vis-a-vis the Holocaust.  In this meeting of the Teach Environmental...

In Episode 12, Professor Michael Brown of the University of Aberdeen discusses who held power in Ireland in 1714 and how the protestant ascendancy developed following the fall of James II and the rise of the Hanoverian dynasty. This is a period increasingly defined by the exclusion of Ireland’s Catholic and...

Eleanor Barraclough tells a richly detailed history of the Viking Age through the everyday objects and traces left by ordinary people, revealing the complex, lived realities behind the familiar saga‑era myths. Dr Eleanor Barraclough is a historian, author and broadcaster. Her most recent book, Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories...