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History Hub was created as part of 'Citizens: 800 years in the making', a National Lottery Heritage Fund supported project led by Dr Matthew Smith at Royal H...

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William Gladstone and Home Rule for Ireland

The Cold War origins of International Aid

The Taff Vale Case Origins of the Labour Party

Thomas Jackson's pro-magistrate account of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre Archives Alive Peterloo

Dictatorships and authoritarianism in the Islamic World

Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England

Charles I disputes the legality of the Court The Trial of Charles I, 1649 The English Civil War

The radicalism of early Christianity Professor Kate Cooper

The significance and legacy of Henry VIII A Windsor Castle Story

Loyalist warnings to the Blanketeers marching on London in March 1817

Were the 1960s as permissive as we think Dr Stella Moss

Robert Lowe speaks out against extending the franchise in 1866

The Fall of the Roman Republic and 'the Peace of Augustus' Professor Kate Cooper

Working Class opposition to the Great Reform Act 1832 The Poor Man's Guardian

The Prison Diary of Perpetua Recovering Women's Stories in the Ancient World Prof. Kate Cooper

What is the Domesday book The Norman Conquest

Charles I strikes out at Parliament The attempted arrest of the Five Members on 4 January 1642

What motivated people to join the Second Crusade Professor Jonathan Phillips

The Stamp Act and the origins of the American Revolution

Robert Peel accepts the 1832 Great Reform Act What was the 1834 Tamworth Manifesto

Did the Church of England offer a middle path between Protestantism and Catholicism Reformation

The force-feeding of Suffragettes by the state The campaign for Votes for Women

The Matchgirls Strike of 1888 recounted by Annie Besant

Was the Partition of India inevitable Professor Sarah Ansari

Glorious Revolution or Dutch Invasion 1688 Revisited

Joseph Chamberlain and the 'unauthorised' Liberal election programme of 1885

Origins of the Holocaust Intentionalism and Functionalism Professor Dan Stone

Miller No. 1, Prerogative Powers and Parliament Legal Landmarks

William Cobbett and 'Rural War', or the Swing Riots of 1830 Poverty and Protest

Was Stalinism a betrayal of the Russian Revolution Dr Daniel Beer