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
- Films: Khrushchev - Interpretations
- Film: Khrushchev - Background
- Political and social attitudes underpinning the 1924 Olympics
- Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport
- Out and About in ‘The most Loyal and Ancient City of Taunton’
- The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945
Women
- 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
- Joan Vaux: a remarkable Tudor lady
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
- Films: Khrushchev - Interpretations
- Film: Khrushchev - Background
- Film: Yeltsin - Early Life
- Bonapartism after Napoleon III: the Prince Imperial and Eugene Loudun
- Ending Camelot: the assassination of John F Kennedy
- The Coronation of King Charles III
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
- The First Crusade, 1095–99
- Jewish settlements in Medieval England
- Secular acts and sacred practices in the Italian Renaissance church interior
- Philip Larkin: appreciating parish churches
- The Jews of Medieval England
- My Favourite History Place: Sawley Abbey
International Relations
- Films: Khrushchev - Interpretations
- Film: Khrushchev - Background
- Political and social attitudes underpinning the 1924 Olympics
- Real Lives: Maharaja’s German: Anthony Pohlmann in India
- Bonapartism after Napoleon III: the Prince Imperial and Eugene Loudun
- The Legacy of the Z Special Unit in World War II
Economics
- Film: The Two German Economies
- History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe
- Film: 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
- Opinion: Who was ‘the man of his time’?
- Political and social attitudes underpinning the 1924 Olympics
- Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport
- The right to fight: women’s boxing in Britain
- Writing Lilian Harrison into history
- Out and About in ‘The most Loyal and Ancient City of Taunton’
Culture
- Political and social attitudes underpinning the 1924 Olympics
- White City: the world’s first Olympic Stadium
- The circle of Ulster literary male friendships of author Forrest Reid
- My Favourite History Place: A Short History of Brill
- Real Lives: Charlie Mitchell, Tuke's top model
- My Favourite History Place: The Holburne Museum