History Matters

Anatomical pop-up books, introduced in the 16th century, took anatomy out of the lecture hall and into the home. 

Is the office the height of bureaucractic efficiency, or an unnecessary evil?

Defending the Home Front in Ancient Greece.

In 1022 heretics were discovered in northern France and burned to death for their crimes. But what caused this outbreak of radical thought?

As the Nazis enclosed Warsaw’s Jewish quarter in a ghetto, a librarian set up a secret children’s library. 

What did British officers think of the American Civil War as it was happening?

Hollywood’s golden age was born of the popularity of swords and sandals on the Victorian stage.

In 17th-century Tuscany and Malta some women were able to hold their abusers, members of the clergy, to account.

The Ukrainian-Polish border is a symbol of both international solidarity and the continuing threat that xenophobia poses to the European project.

People with learning or physical disabilities occasionally had unique opportunities in Tudor society.