Is milk good for us? When did we start drinking it? How common is lactose intolerance? Here are five facts about milk.

UCL History alumnus Edward Shawcross explores the remarkable life and political career of Napoleon III in his latest book, The People’s Emperor, published by Faber & Faber.

Congratulations to Dr Chloe Ireton, Associate Professor in the History of the Iberian World, 1500–1800, on the forthcoming publication of Plotting for Freedom in November 2026.

Greetings from 24 Gordon Square and welcome to the UCL History 2026 Summer Newsletter!

On 9–10 July 2026, Dr Fabian Krautwald convened a British Academy-funded workshop at the University of Dar es Salaam on East Africa's historic ties to the western Indian Ocean.

Research partnerships across borders raise difficult questions: who decides what knowledg

The History Department is delighted to announce the publication of The Hobo: A History of America’s First Climate Migrants by Dr Robert Suits, Lecturer in Environmental History.

Join the CCEAS Seminar with Jaymin Kim on Sinitic Law, Tributary Relations, and Interstate Jurisdiction: Qing Jurisdiction over Chosŏn and Lê Subjects in Eighteenth-Century Borderlands.

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Dr Montaz Marché and Dr Michael Collins (UCL) are the winners of the British Society for Sports History’s 2026 Inclusive Communities History Prize.

Join UCL History for the Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture with guest speaker Professor Peter H. Wilson, presenting “Early Modern Europe’s Business of War.” All are welcome for this special talk.

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This roundtable will initiate interdisciplinary conversations on the topic of fatness, thinness and embodiment.

A $575,000 grant from a North American funder will support the development of a database of enslaved people at the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS).

The fifth instalment of the annual Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series from the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery.

UCL History congratulates Dr Patrick Lantschner on co-editing The Cambridge Urban History of Europe and invites colleagues and friends to the international launch on 27 March 2026.

Join the CCEAS Term Time Seminar with Tuan-Hwee Sng on When Peace Made the State: State Capacity in Song China.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024) is a prize-winning documentary about decolonization, the Cold War, and the role of jazz music in American cultural diplomacy.

Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t

Communities of Laughter and Constructions of Cultural Belonging and Otherness in the Context of the European Expansion in the Early Modern Period.