Historical Periods
History is the story of all that has passed and everything that people have done, thought and experienced, from ancient times right up to today's news. Here you can explore Ancient history, discover the Medieval period, learn about Early Modern history (15th-18th centuries) or get into Modern history.
Ancient
- Film: The Making of Early England 500-1066
- 'Veni, Vidi, Vici!'
- Podcast Series: From the Stone Age to the Romans
- Podcast Series: Ancient British and Irish Pagan Religion
- Roman Britain
- The Undergrowth of History
Medieval
- Film: Building Anglo-Saxon England
- A woman’s place is in the castle
- (Un)exceptional women: queenship and power in medieval Europe
- A-level Topic Guide: the Crusades
- Film: A Jewish Divorce Case in Medieval England
- Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century
Early Modern
- Joan Vaux: a remarkable Tudor lady
- Tudor queens: power, identity and gender
- Elizabeth I: ‘less than a woman’?
- Film: The ladies-in-waiting who served the six wives of Henry VIII
- After the revolution: did Cromwell, Washington and Bonaparte betray revolutionary principles?
- A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley
Modern
- Anti-Americanism in Britain during the Second World War
- Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain
- Recorded Webinar: Nineteenth-century crime and punishment
- Recorded webinar: Queer beyond London
- Film: Bricks and the making of the city - London in the 19th century
- Mountbatten in retirement: the abortive trip to rebel Rhodesia