Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

James Bradshaw by Joseph Wright of Derby If you’ve been watching Professor David Olusoga’s series ‘Finding Britain’s Slave Traders’ you will have seen the new Register of Br…

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

Thursday 24th September, 4-5pm, Online Come and find out about a fantastic bank of new resources on the Bayeux Tapestry that can be used to introduce pupils to Latin.  The resources...

Writing for Mass Observation You can apply to write for the archive here. Current Observers If you are one of our current Observers you may find our handbook for new Observers helpful. This has all th...

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Alt: GIF of a Hobbit running with a caption saying, “I'm Going On An Adventure!” He must be going to do fieldwork. He’s got a long piece of paper or parchment in one hand. He’s wearing a backpack, probably full of books and pens and maps and a camera. He eschews mobile phones.

William Pynchon, earliest colonial ancestor of the novelist Thomas Pynchon, was a key figure in the early settlement of New England. He also wrote a book which became, at the hands of the Puritans it ...

Alt: Gumichan the Laughing Bird says “ha ha ha ha ha, No.” He is sprightly and red with an orange beak. He takes data protection seriously. He maintains optimal digital hygiene even though he realizes data breaches are inevitable. He will not buy the shoes, after all; birds do not need them.

The large-scale landscape changes that occurred in northern Britain from roughly 400–800 C.E. were built on a vast array of smaller shifting practices which reflected the realities of local environmen...

Follow the story and discover the people, places and events of 1066 and the Battle of Hastings. Made for young learners, open to all.

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,250. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students

Political philosophy contains some of the greatest writings in the Western intellectual tradition. This online course introduces you to the central questions concerning the state, by means of classica...

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"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thi...

From the fourteenth century, prostitutes in Florence were encouraged to leave their profession and spend their lives in repentance at the monastery of Sant’Elisabetta delle Convertite. Many did over i...