Historical Periods
History is the story of all that has passed and everything that people have done, thought and experienced, from ancient times right up to today's news. Here you can explore Ancient history, discover the Medieval period, learn about Early Modern history (15th-18th centuries) or get into Modern history.
Ancient
- Film: The Making of Early England 500-1066
- 'Veni, Vidi, Vici!'
- Podcast Series: From the Stone Age to the Romans
- Podcast Series: Ancient British and Irish Pagan Religion
- Roman Britain
- The Undergrowth of History
Medieval
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy
- Film: Building Anglo-Saxon England
- A woman’s place is in the castle
- (Un)exceptional women: queenship and power in medieval Europe
- A-level Topic Guide: the Crusades
- Film: A Jewish Divorce Case in Medieval England
Early Modern
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic
- Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England
- Joan Vaux: a remarkable Tudor lady
- Tudor queens: power, identity and gender
- Elizabeth I: ‘less than a woman’?
- Film: The ladies-in-waiting who served the six wives of Henry VIII
Modern
- Virtual Branch Recording: Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society
- Anti-Americanism in Britain during the Second World War
- Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain
- Recorded Webinar: Nineteenth-century crime and punishment
- Recorded webinar: Queer beyond London
- Film: Bricks and the making of the city - London in the 19th century