Department of History

Students looking at evidence in classroom setting

Liverpool students help uncover critical evidence in nuclear veterans’ fight for justice

March 20, 2026

Full length view at couples dancing in palace ballroom and swirling on parquet floor

Bridgerton: why not knowing how to dance could ruin your reputation in Regency Britain

February 9, 2026

Full length portrait of two young ladies walking together towards camera in voluminous classic dresses across wooden floor in softly lit vintage ballroom

Inside the Regency ballroom: what you’d experience on a night out with Jane Austen

December 8, 2025

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

September 2, 2025

L-R Dr Jon Hogg, Veteran Owen Coker, Terri Pollard.

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

Andrew Foster

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

October 11, 2024

An old drawing of a ship

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

April 3, 2024

film

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

January 25, 2024

Anglo Saxon burial mound

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

October 4, 2023