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
- Archaeology on the edge
- 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
Medieval
- Using financial records to gain insights into medieval society
- Edgar Ætheling: what happened to the boy who never became king?
- Update: The Princes in the Tower
- Decoding medieval pilgrimage
- Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England
- Doing history: Manorial Court Records
Early Modern
- Female protagonists in early East India Company history
- More than skin deep: unmasking the history of cold cream
- Out and About: The historical significance of the Botanic Garden in Oxford
- Real Lives: the long life of Old Tom Parr
- Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks
- Out and About: Locating the Local Lockup
Modern
- The success of the Salford General Strike of 1911
- Making and breaking Britain’s national energy order
- Doing history: reconstructing the life of physician, psychiatrist and anthropologist James Cowles Prichard
- Social Darwinism: the myth and its reinvention
- Opinion: the populist politics of Joseph Chamberlain and Donald Trump
- Tunnel visions: London’s wartime shelters