Arguably, without his wife Matilda’s financial backing, powerful family ties and queenly skills, William may never have achieved any of his lofty ambitions.

This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor, drawing on many thousands of accounts of...

Book containing early versions of the Merlin and Grail legends has remained in private hands for 700 years

This course introduces students to key skills for the study of medieval manuscripts, from the making of parchment to reading text and imagery

Over a third of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers in 2023 made no mention of women at all.

Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t

The drama follows Harold of Wessex (James Norton) and William of Normandy (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) two men destined to meet in 1066

The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...

In the concluding episode of this two-part series, Steven King  and Glen O’Hara discuss what lessons Keir Starmer might learn from the last time Labour was in government.

Steven King and Glen O'Hara discuss what lessons Keir Starmer might learn from the last time Labour was in government.

Modern governments have tended to rely heavily on a ‘follow the science’ response to epidemiological threats. However, epidemics are moments of both scientific uncertainty and social crisis. This pose...

ALT: a cartoon of a girl standing in front of a door that says that sign can 't stop me because i can

The theme of this year's History Postgrad Conference at NTU is 'Power and the People'.

On Monday 12 May, Keir Starmer announced his government's plans to reform the immigration system, tightening rules on who may reside in the UK. Although quickly denying any political incentive, the ti...

Harvard Law School paid just $27 for the document, which UK academics now think is the real thing.