World
The modern world cannot be studied without examining the course, impact and legacy of two world wars, the resources in this section set out to look at both the First and Second World Wars in their global context. The section also includes the Cold War and its impact in Latin America, South-East Asia and parts of Africa. This period also sees the rise and fall of European imperialism and the changing nature of global politics and economics as technology brings different stories from so many parts of the world directly to us. Read more
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After the revolution: did Cromwell, Washington and Bonaparte betray revolutionary principles?
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Flight from Kabul: a historical perspective
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Film: Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?
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Recorded webinar: History, Politics and Journalism
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The cultural biography of opium in China
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What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South
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The British Empire on trial
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‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire
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Legacies of the Cement Armada
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History Abridged: Language and the African continent
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What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?
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Women’s friendship in late eighteenth-century America and its relevance to lockdown
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‘Power to the people’? Disputed presidential elections in US history
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Film: China's Good War
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Immigration and the making of British food
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Film: An introduction to the African-American Civil Rights Movement
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What have historians been arguing about... decolonisation and the British Empire?
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Film: The Kennedys and the Gores
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The Northern Limit: Britain, Canada and Greenland, 1917-20
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Journeys Home: Indian forces and the First World War
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