A Clash of Cultures
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
- My Favourite History Place: A Short History of Brill
- Out and About in ‘The most Loyal and Ancient City of Taunton’
- Opinion: Who was ‘the man of his time’?
- My Favourite History Place: The Holburne Museum
- Out and About: exploring Lancaster’s ‘glocal’ history online and on foot
- In conversation with Nicholas Radburn
Europe
- Secular acts and sacred practices in the Italian Renaissance church interior
- The throne and the fairy tellers
- Robespierre: a reluctant terrorist?
- The Duchy of Courland and a Baltic colonial venture across the ocean
- Out and About in Stockholm
- Sweden’s forgotten revolution