Britain & Ireland
What was it about industrialisation that led to the emergence of a woman’s movement in Victorian Britain? Why do we see so many people fighting for so many rights and liberties in this period and what are the origins of some of the issues we still campaign on today? This section includes our major series on Social and Political Change in the UK from 1800 to the present day. There are also articles and podcasts on the often violent relationship between England and Ireland during this period and England’s changing relationship with Scotland and Wales. Read more
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Fascism in Europe 1919-1945
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Fascist behind barbed wire: political internment without trial in wartime Britain
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Faster, Higher, Stronger: The Birth of the Modern Olympics
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Film: Acts of Union and Disunion
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Film: An Interview with Margaret MacMillan
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Film: Bricks and the making of the city - London in the 19th century
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Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
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Film: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War
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Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967
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Filmed Interview: The Women of Bletchley Park
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First Zeppelin shot down over Britain
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Florence Nightingale and epidemics
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Football and British-Soviet Relations
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Four faces of nursing and the First World War
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From Disraeli to Callaghan: Britain 1879 - 1979
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From Sail to Steam
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Gary Sheffield: Origins of the First World War
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Gladstone and the London May Day Demonstrators, 1890
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Guy Fawkes in Manchester: The World of William Harrison Ainsworth
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Hammer, House of Horror: The making of a British film company, 1934 to 1979
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