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  • A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley

      Historian article
    Sara Read introduces us to a woman who challenged expectations during the turbulent years of the early seventeenth century. In 1622 a pious young woman with a highly unusual first name, Brilliana Conway, sat at her desk doodling her signature on her commonplace book. She had lofty ambitions for her self-development...
    A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley
  • History Abridged: The City of Alexandria

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles One of the oldest cities...
    History Abridged: The City of Alexandria
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

      Lives of medieval women
    What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives?  Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four who did: Marie de France,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals

      Article
    The religious wars of the Crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals
  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949

      Diaries and Personal Experiences
    In this talk Professor Henrietta Harrison uses diary records to think about the experience of living through the revolution in China in 1949, focussing on what it meant to Chinese people, how they learned about its practices and ideology, and how this changed their lives - whether they were radical intellectuals returning...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Shylock's Venice

      The remarkable history of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
    This is the story of the Venice Ghetto, the corner of the city where Jews were exiled; free to walk the streets by day, locked behind gates and walls at night. Yet, gates and walls notwithstanding, from its establishment in 1516 until the fall of Venice in 1798, the ghetto...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Shylock's Venice
  • Virtual Branch Recording: From Pirates to Princes Normans in Eleventh Century Europe

      Article
    Normandy originated from a grant of land to Rollo, a Viking leader, in the early tenth century. By the end of that century Normans were to be found in southern Italy, then in Britain and, at the end of the eleventh century, in the near East on the First Crusade....
    Virtual Branch Recording: From Pirates to Princes Normans in Eleventh Century Europe
  • Film: China's Good War

      How World War II is shaping a new nationalism
    In this lecture Professor Mitter uses film and other propaganda works to explore how key events of global history are being represented in China to develop a different understanding of its own past. The talk addresses a number of the factors for this change in how China is reflecting on...
    Film: China's Good War