Joe Saunders Mulberries are wonderful trees bearing lovely fruit. Despite their distinctiveness these trees ‘are often overlooked and even at the height of their fruit season they can remain unnoti…

Laura Sangha A companion piece to: What is history for? Or: Doing history/thinking historically The train to Totnes this weekend was full of late holiday makers heading for Cornwall. They were grat…

The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?

The Social History Society currently administers three funding schemes. Our Small Research Grants provide up to £1000 to support direct research costs incurred by members of the Society. Our Events…

In 1787, as the First Fleet made its way across the Atlantic to colonise Australia, it traversed an ocean made synonymous with the violently forced mobility of enslavement, then reaching an unprece...

Early Stuart England saw the emergence of mass petitioning. These expressions of collective grievance would advance popular politics, uncover division, and lay the road to war.

What happened after Guy Fawkes was captured?

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TNA REQ 2 Pleadings by English and Welsh counties, 1558-1603

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Metal and Literary Production in Early Modern England

In 1736, however, Walpole suffered a rare miscalculation and was unprepared for the almost unanimous opposition that the bishops presented against his

Over two nights in Larrakia country, Darwin Aboriginal art fair’s annual runway event showcases the work of 21 designers and art centres. A cast of First Nations models and performers walk beneath a boab tree on the forecourt of Charles Darwin University’s Danala campus. ‘It’s a massive show, we could be mad to be doing it but the opportunities it creates for mob in this space is important, needed and our motivation,’ says Michelle Maynard, manager at Indigenous Fashion Projects * Ramingining fashion: a celebration of Yolngu culture and design – in pictures * Indigenous designers hold independent runway ahead of Australian fashion week – in pictures Continue reading...

Join Dr Anna Cusack of How-to History for an epic walking tour of Roman London.

Shakespeare mentions dragons over 5 times in his plays, and all of his descriptions give fearsome images and terrifying attributes.

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From Desiderius Erasmus to Luis Rubiales, a cultural history of this most intimate of gestures

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

As a professional historian based in the UK I offer a number of research services: Archival Photography Travel to archives and record offices to photograph documents and transfer them securely. Geo…