Themes
History is the story of all that has passed, which makes it a pretty big subject! So we have tried to break it down here by themes such as politics, religion and international relations, or you can also browse by period. Whether you are an academic, a teacher, a heritage worker, student, someone with a general interest or armchair historian you can find something of interest here.
Politics
- Film: Brezhnev's legacy
- Film: Brezhnev and Détente
- Film: Brezhnev's agenda
- Film: From Khrushchev to Brezhnev
- Film: Brezhnev's early life and career
- The Exclusion Crisis (1679–81)
Women
- In conversation with Mineke Schipper
- The right to fight: women’s boxing in Britain
- Writing Lilian Harrison into history
- Women and the French Revolution: the start of the modern feminist movement
- Real Lives: Beatrice Alexander
- Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain
Health
- The right to fight: women’s boxing in Britain
- White City: the world’s first Olympic Stadium
- Real Lives: Beatrice Alexander
- Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc: her missions of mercy, 1899–1932
- Real Lives: Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
- Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century
Power
- Film: Brezhnev's legacy
- Film: Brezhnev and Détente
- Film: Brezhnev's agenda
- Film: From Khrushchev to Brezhnev
- Film: Brezhnev's early life and career
- The Exclusion Crisis (1679–81)
Science
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution
- Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc: her missions of mercy, 1899–1932
- Real Lives: Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
- Glowing in the Dark
- A (non-Western) history of versatility
- The amazing adventures of Pytheas the Greek
Religion
- Real Lives: Colonel James Skinner
- The First Crusade, 1095–99
- The Jews of Medieval England
- Secular acts and sacred practices in the Italian Renaissance church interior
- Jewish settlements in Medieval England
- Philip Larkin: appreciating parish churches
International Relations
- Recruiting volunteers to fight in the First World War
- Film: Lenin, the 1905 Russian Revolution and WWI
- Films: Khrushchev – Interpretations
- Film: Khrushchev - Background
- Political and social attitudes underpinning the 1924 Olympics
- Real Lives: Maharaja’s German: Anthony Pohlmann in India
Economics
- Film: The Two German Economies
- History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe
- Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2021 - Rana Mitter
- What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
- The British Empire on trial
- Legacies of the Cement Armada
Society
- Archaeology on the edge
- Connecting poetry, philosophy and landscapes in Ancient China
- Recruiting volunteers to fight in the First World War
- Doing history: The Old Poor Law in a Regency York Parish 1795–1847
- Political and social attitudes underpinning the 1924 Olympics
- Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport