Return of the Vikings
The Vikings are back with a vengeance, writes Jeffrey Richards
Jeffrey Richards
Chariots of Fire
The Oscar-winning film is re-released ahead of the Olympic Games.
The Forgotten War Remembered
Britain and the United States may have been on the same side during the Second World War, but cinematic representations of the conflict could stir controversy between them, as Jeffrey Richards explains.
Fires Were Started
Jeffrey Richards rekindles Humphrey Jennings' stirring wartime portrayal of firefighters who became heroes of the Blitz.
The Lyceum Theatre, London
Jeffrey Richards looks at a stage where Victorian theatre attained its apogee
What is the History of Popular Culture? (iii)
Jeffrey Richards answers
The Riddle of Richard III
Five hundred years after Richard III came to the throne, Jeffrey Richards seeks to evaluate those 'tales' and explain the continuing fascination of the short reign of the last Plantagent king of England
Controlling the Screen: The British Cinema in the 1930s
Films interest the modern historian for they reflect the preoccupations and conventions of an age. In this article, Jeffrey Richards shows how the British cinema-goer in the 1930s saw the world according to the British Board of Censors.