Department of History

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom – a deep and nuanced analysis of a complex monarch

September 2, 2025

Nuclear test veteran shares his story with local schoolchildren

July 1, 2025

Do serving vice presidents become president? Historical precedents for Kamala Harris in 2024

October 28, 2024

Becoming an expert: English and Irish nuns in the seventeenth century

October 11, 2024

Remembering thousands of convicts who died working in Bermuda’s dockyards

April 3, 2024

Dunki: what this new Bollywood film tells us about the imperial history of the UK’s immigration system

January 25, 2024

The burials that could challenge historians’ ideas about Anglo-Saxon gender

October 4, 2023

A letter to first year me: Samantha

September 6, 2023

How free-range eggs became the norm in supermarkets – and sold customers a lie

March 13, 2023

£2.6 million Wellcome Discovery Award for ‘Melting Metropolis’ historical urban heat study

January 23, 2023