Early Modern
Traditionally, the Early Modern period covers the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries and we have kept to this tradition. The range includes podcasts, articles and publications by academics and specialists from across the UK and the world. Covered here are items on the small details of history as well as the big trends. The political ideas that helped to create the world of today from enlightenment, through Thomas Paine to revolution are addressed in this section, along with the economic and cultural impact they had. It is also a period in which we see the beginnings of what might be termed globalisation: is the trans-Atlantic slave trade, British, European, or World history? Actually it’s all of them; therefore we have a number of resources here that explore that dark history. Read more
Britain & Ireland
- Film: Attic Inscriptions
- The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870
- Film: Tudor Royal Authority - Interpretations
- Film: Elizabeth I - Interpretations
- Joseph Banks and his travelling plants, 1787-1810
- Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837
Europe
- The Flight to Varennes
- Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837
- Podcast Series: The Spanish Golden Age
- Interpretations of the French Revolution
- Scottish Diplomatists 1689-1789
- Podcast Series: Thomas Paine
World
- Film: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
- Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'
- The Voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot
- Ferninando Gorges and New England
- Podcast Series: The British Empire 1600-1800
- Podcast Series: Thomas Paine