Birth of a New Age
From the changing understanding of democracy across the world to experiments in other forms of government and fundamental changes in social and sexual attitudes the modern world covering the period from the late eighteenth century to the present day presents our broadest range of resources. The range includes podcasts, articles and publications by academics and specialists from across the UK and the world. From Waterloo to the Opium Wars and from Alan Turing to the modern LGBT rights movement there’s plenty of history to explore. We also include fascinating pieces on gangster, cartoons and seaside piers! What the modern period does better than any other is allow us to delve into a rich variety of records from government dossiers to personal recollections. Read more
Britain & Ireland
- My Favourite History Place: A Short History of Brill
- White City: the world’s first Olympic Stadium
- Britain and the First World War: not just battles
- Real Lives: Maharaja’s German: Anthony Pohlmann in India
- Opinion: Who was ‘the man of his time’?
- The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945
Europe
- Political and social attitudes underpinning the 1924 Olympics
- The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945
- Crowdsourcing the heritage of the Second World War
- Bonapartism after Napoleon III: the Prince Imperial and Eugene Loudun
- Forbidden friendships: taverns, nightclubs, bottle bars and emancipation
- The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide