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  • Real Lives: Mrs Annabel Dott (1868–1937)

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected sto greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Mrs Annabel Dott (1868–1937)
  • Doing history: Manorial Court Records

      Historian feature
    Manorial records are often associated with the medieval period, and while they are a valuable resource for medieval historians, they actually span from the twelfth to the twentieth century. Sarah Pettyfer sheds light on these often-overlooked records, helping family and local historians explore them with confidence...
    Doing history: Manorial Court Records
  • In conversation with Tom Hamilton

      Historian feature
    The Historian sat down with Tom Hamilton to discuss his recent work, A Widow’s Vengeance after the Wars of Religion, which uncovers the story of a revealing criminal trial during the French Wars of Religion...
    In conversation with Tom Hamilton
  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

      Article
    Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades.  Why...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic
  • Film: Brezhnev and Détente

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film Dr Edwin Bacon blanks about the modernisation of the soviet union in the 1960s and 70s under Brezhnev, with some scholars predicting that as the East and West evolved, they would eventually converge as modern developed industrialised societies. The problem with convergence theory is that it didn’t...
    Film: Brezhnev and Détente
  • Film: Brezhnev's agenda

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film Dr Edwin Bacon talks about Brezhnev’s change in direction and approach after Khruschev, making collective leadership work and the Kosygin reforms. Whilst there were changes from the era of Khruschev, Brezhnev’s response to the Prague Spring in 1968 showed that some things had not changed. The events...
    Film: Brezhnev's agenda
  • Film: From Khrushchev to Brezhnev

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film Dr Edwin Bacon reflects upon the instability of the Khrushchev era and how Brezhnev positioned himself as the perfect replacement for a Soviet Communist party desperate for stability in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis. Brezhnev would be the first amongst equals looking to move forward...
    Film: From Khrushchev to Brezhnev
  • Film: Brezhnev's early life and career

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film Dr Edwin Bacon takes us through Brezhnev’s early life and career: his birth in Ukraine in 1906, the opportunities brought by the revolution, his role in the battle of Ukraine and his eventual arrival to the Politburo at the end of the 1950s. Dr Bacon looks at...
    Film: Brezhnev's early life and career
  • Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England

      Article
    In this Virtual Branch talk Professor Emma Smith provides a preview of her current research, which explores the lives and cultural undercurrents of Elizabethan England. What was influencing their cultural tastes and how much of it was new, or had it all been seen before? Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

      Lives of medieval women
    What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives?  Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four who did: Marie de France,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
  • Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

      Retracing the trajectories of young survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust
    Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
  • Introductory film: Lenin - Interpretations

      Part of the HA Interpretations Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Log in below to preview the introductory film - available to all registered users of the website. This open access introductory film forms part of our ongoing film series on Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union. All the films are available through the Student Zone with corporate secondary membership. ...
    Introductory film: Lenin - Interpretations
  • Film: Lenin's legacy

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    With his body was embalmed and building high statues were erected to him Lenin’s memory seemed secured for ever. Yet how did his memory and his actual legacy differ? Did he really set the course for a future better Russia, or were his ideas of revolution better on paper than...
    Film: Lenin's legacy
  • Film: Yeltsin and the West

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Edwin Bacon (University of Lincoln), looks how the positive relationship established between Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan and his successor President Bush continued with the ascension of Yeltsin to the presidency of Russia. Dr Bacon discusses how Russian perceptions of the West changed with the expansion...
    Film: Yeltsin and the West
  • Film: Yeltsin and the Oligarchs

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    If you're unable to see the film below, please use the link for your Membership type:Historian members | Primary members | Secondary members | Student members
    Film: Yeltsin and the Oligarchs
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society

      Article
    Red Lion Square was long one of London's most genteel addresses, home to nobles, scholars, and professionals. But on 25 March 1818, one house on the south side opened its doors to quite another class of person, as the Mendicity Society began its business. Set up to solve the growing...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals

      Article
    The religious wars of the Crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals
  • What was Witchcraft in the Early Sixteenth Century?

      Article
    In this article, Dr Jonathan Durrant (Principal Lecturer in History, University of South Wales) argues that we know no more now than we did in the late 1980s about what witchcraft was as men and women of the early sixteenth century understood it. Dr Durrant looks at evidence from Henry VIII's Witchcraft Act of 1542 to explore British and European perceptions of witches...
    What was Witchcraft in the Early Sixteenth Century?
  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy

      Article
    In 1135 Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, stealing it from his cousin Empress Matilda and sparking a nineteen-year civil war that would become known as the Anarchy, one of the bloodiest periods in English history. On the one side is Empress Matilda. On the other side is her cousin,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy
  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949

      Diaries and Personal Experiences
    In this talk Professor Henrietta Harrison uses diary records to think about the experience of living through the revolution in China in 1949, focussing on what it meant to Chinese people, how they learned about its practices and ideology, and how this changed their lives - whether they were radical intellectuals returning...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949
  • Film: Stalin & the Great Terror

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Why was the Soviet Union so violent in the 1930s? In this film, Professor James Harris (University of Leeds) looks at differing interpretations of the origins of the Great Terror; was it the story of one man trying to obtain total control, was it a result of collective frustration against...
    Film: Stalin & the Great Terror
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Humans

      The 300,000 year struggle for equality
    In this Virtual Branch talk, Dr Alvin Finkel challenges claims that egalitarian, peaceful societies disappeared with the founding of agriculture or with the founding of state-level social organisation.  Different authors have suggested that early human society was essentially egalitarian in nature, with hierarchies only later becoming common. The point at which...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Humans
  • Introductory film: Khrushchev - Interpretations

      Part of the HA Interpretations Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Log in below to preview the introductory film - available to all registered users of the website. This open access introductory film forms part of our ongoing film series on Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union. All the films are available through the Student Zone with corporate secondary...
    Introductory film: Khrushchev - Interpretations
  • Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome

      Article
    In this webinar, Jane Draycott shares her research on prostheses and assistive technology in ancient Greece, Rome and the neighbouring civilisations. She outlines the findings from her 2023 book on this subject, which arose from a grant to visit museums around the UK to access surviving ancient prostheses and modern...
    Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome
  • Film: Yeltsin and the fall of the Soviet Union

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Edwin Bacon (University of Lincoln), explores the role Yeltsin played in the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Dr Bacon takes us from the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of nationalism in the new republics, and how Yeltsin became Russia’s first elected head of state....
    Film: Yeltsin and the fall of the Soviet Union