History Matters

British history

Hallam Roffey | 11 April 2023

Radical Histories of Psychedelics

Isobel Hadlum | 30 November 2020

‘Illegitimate’ Cultures: from the Music Hall to the Rave

Liam Raine | 23 November 2020

British Imperial Revival in the Early Cold War: The Malayan ‘Emergency’ 1948-60

Radha Kapuria | 16 November 2020

Decolonisation Strategies: Portico Library Curators at Sheffield University

Jamie Jenkins | 2 November 2020

A 'Mirror' Up To Society: The Daily Mirror And British Public Opinion

Bob Shoemaker | 12 October 2020

The Future of the Online Monograph

Steven Fielding | 9 October 2020

The Politics Of Churchill’s Statue

Hallam Roffey | 6 October 2020

“Freewheelin’ To Ban-Happy”?: Students And No-Platform In Britain

Richard Toye | 31 August 2020

'I don't think I’m Wrong about Stalin’: Churchill’s Strategic and Diplomatic Assumptions at Yalta

Aaron Ackerley | 7 August 2020

Why You Should Watch ‘The Rise Of The Murdoch Dynasty’

Eleanor Reed | 9 July 2020

'Time and Tide: Connections and Legacies' Website Launch

Katie Crowley | 6 July 2020

Maintaining The Status Quo?: A Brief History Of History At The University

Ed Owens | 12 June 2020

The Monarchy and the Next Great Depression

Liam Liburd | 5 May 2020

Fascism Fictionalised: Inter-war British Fascism in Popular Culture, 1932 to Present

Chris Locke | 9 April 2020

Dawson’s ‘Big Idea’: The Enduring Appeal of the Primary Healthcare Centre in Britain

Izzy Larsen | 20 March 2020

Did the Feminist Challenge Actually Shake Up the Print Press in 1969? Press Representations of Women in the Run-up to Women’s Lib

Colin Reid | 27 February 2020

The Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820

Mirijan Galley | 18 November 2019

Boris Johnson’s Favourite Stalin Story…: On The Difference Between Raising Taxes and Conducting Mass Terror Campaigns

Mike Finn | 31 October 2019

Churchill And The Prof: Putting ‘Declinism’ At The Heart Of The System

Gareth Millward | 28 October 2019

Jonas Salk Turns 105: Some Thoughts On Lessons From History

Charlotte Tomkins | 24 September 2019

Rex Britanniae?- The National Identity Of King Edward I In Four Maps

Owen A. Jones | 16 September 2019

A Great British Welcome? Unlearned Lessons From The Kindertransport

Natalya Edwards | 10 September 2019

‘Maybe It’s Medieval?’ – Comparing Modern TV And Film Against The Medieval Morality Play

Christopher S. Byrne | 12 August 2019

The (Un)knowability of Jews in Britain: Discourses From State and Sitcom in 1965

Bob Shoemaker | 29 May 2019

Why Naomi Wolf Misinterpreted Evidence From The Old Bailey Online

Aaron Ackerley | 16 May 2019

Old Prejudices, New Debates: J.A. Hobson And Anti-Semitism

Eleanor O'Keefe | 29 April 2019

Remembering Mi Amigo And The Politics Of Commemoration

Aaron Ackerley | 28 March 2019

Free Trade Brexit: Think Tanks and Pressure Groups in Modern British Politics

Liam Liburd | 29 March 2019

The Postcolonial Clairvoyants? Seeing Brexit In The Writings Of Paul Gilroy

Eirini Karamouzi |29 March 2019

Always On The Sidelines? A Historian’s View On Brexit

Michael Bennett | 25 March 2019

The 1807 Abolition Act And British Public Memory

Claire Chambers and Rehana Ahmed| 8 March 2019

Thirty Years of the Fatwa

Kate McAllister | 6 February 2019

PIP, Parity, and the Past: why history matters

Andrew Heath | 23 January 2019

Party Politics, Realignment and Brexit: Can the American Civil War Teach us Anything?

David Saunders | 15 January 2019

The Guinea Pigs of Oakholme Road: Pacifism and Medical Research in Wartime Sheffield

Ryosuke Yokoe | 18 December 2018

Abstinence Or Moderate Drinking? Reflecting On The U.S. Prohibition In Britain

Chris Corker | 12 December 2018

The Armaments Past Of Mark Firth

Chris Millard | 10 December 2018

Why Study The History Of Child Abuse And Infant Death?

Julie Gottlieb | 28 November 2018

Nancy Astor: Feminist By Default Rather Than By Design

Aaron Ackerley | 14 November 2018

The Social Silences And Social Consequences Of Finance

Hallam Roffey | 25 October 2018

Undead Letters: Ireland’s Blasphemy Referendum

Isabelle Carter | 24 July 2018

‘Love Among The Ruins’? Telling The Social History Of Sheffield’s Best-Known Housing Estates

Apurba Chatterjee | 27 June 2018

Empire And Reformation: Perspectives And Possibilities

Lee Norton | 30 November 2017

Has Mental Illness Always Been Stigmatised In Modern Britain? Newspapers And The Munich Crisis

Tom Leng | 20 November 2017

A Tudor Exit From Europe

David Vessey | 9 November 2017

Remembering The Russian Revolution: “Fellow Travellers” In Modern Britain

Annie Wainwright | 1 November 2017

Documenting Feminist Testimony in the Age of Social Media – #ShefFemStories

Charles West | 24 October 2017

Top 10 Books on the History of Medieval Europe

Amber Regis| 2 October 2017

Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives

Natalie Zacek | 22 September 2017

Unburying the History of Slavery in Manchester

Catherine Baker | 14 August 2017

Finding my place in queer cultural history through the ‘post-Cold-War’ period

Elizabeth Goodwin| 1 August 2017

‘Where my ancestors lieth’: Community, Rebellion and Roots in a Yorkshire Church

Miriam Emanuel | 6 July 2017

Stories Unearthed: Community History at Wardsend Cemetery

Kate Wiles | 21 June 2017

The Queen’s scapegoats and Anglo-Saxon charters

David Vessey | 15 June 2017

“Coalition of Chaos”: Britain’s Troubled Past with Coalition Government

Lucy Bell | 9 June 2017

2017 and 1974: Who Governs Britain?

Eliza Hartrich| 8 June 2017

To consult or not to consult? Counsel and legitimacy in medieval and Brexit Britain

Hattie Foreman | 25 May 2017

My work with the Sheffield Feminist Archive: the Importance of Recording feminist Oral Histories

Andrew Heath | 27 April 2017

The Mugwumps and the Revolt against Politics as Usual

Johanna Stiebert | 27 April 2017

Sex, Rape and Social History – The Case of the Bible

David Vessey| 24 April 2017

The Power of the Polls

Leonie Hicks | 12 April 2017

Dark Ages, Stopped!

Máirín MacCarron | 6 April 2017

So What Is Christian About Easter?

Richard Blakemore| 9 March 2017

Facts Britannica: What’s in a nation?

Colin Holmes | 5 December 2016

William Joyce: Fascist, Anti-Semite and Traitor – An Adventure in Political Biography

Martin Johnes | 7 November 2016

Poppies, Football and Remembering the Dead: They’ve Always Been Political

Joe Bear | 27 October 2016

Historians Reflect on the Memory and Meaning of the Battle of Cable Street

Aaron Ackerley | 14 October 2016

Creepy Clowns: Terrifying Menace, Humorous Farce, or Instructive Case Study

Heather Ellis | 10 October 2016

Grammar Schools: Taking the Long View

Julie Gottlieb| 6 October 2016

Women to the Barricades: Gendering the Battle of Cable Street

Daniel Tilles| 4 October 2016

Why we’ve been learning the wrong lessons from Cable Street all these years

Liam Liburd| 3 October 2016

‘There’s gonna be some trouble’: Two interviews from the Battle of Cable Street

Anne Kershen | 29 September 2016

The Legacy and Relevance of Place: Cable Street and the history of London’s East End

Nigel Copsey | 28 September 2016

Who owns the ‘Battle of Cable Street’?

Julie Gottlieb| 27 September 2016

‘The Battle of Cable Street’: Julie V. Gottlieb interviews award-winning filmmaker Yoav Segal

Sarah Kenny| 15 September 2016

Clubs and the community: from Fabric to Leadmill

William Raffle| 8 September 2016

Following the (Old) Money: Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes

Elizabeth Goodwin | 24 August 2016

True heirs and white lies: Witnessing medieval life through the Tinsley Court Rolls

Aaron Ackerley | 2 August 2016

Watchdog or Attack Dog? Jeremy Corbyn and the myth of the ‘free press’

Matthew Ford | 19 July 2016

Chilcot and the politics of Britain’s military history

Julie Gottlieb | 5 July 2016

The Feminising Fallout of Britain’s EU Referendum: Is this the New Face of Feminism?

James Brown | 4 July 2016

‘Mr Rothwell was Very Much Disordered with Drink’: The Long History of the Drunk Vicar

Julie Gottlieb | 1 July 2016

Post-Referendum Depression

Fedja Buric | 30 June 2016

Brexit: A Lesson from Yugoslavia

James Chetwood | 22 June 2016

Standing on the edge of greatness, looking in: English football’s inglorious isolation

James Heartfield | 21 June 2016

The European Union has failed: it’s time to leave

Martin Brown | 20 June 2016

1975 And All That

Matthew McDowell | 10 June 2016

War Minus the Shooting: UK, Europe and International Football

Tom Jackson | 4 June 2016

The Uses and Abuses of History in the EU Referendum

Máirín MacCarron| 4 June 2016

From Jarrow to Rome: Celebrating 1300 years of an Anglo-Saxon masterpiece

Alban Gautier| 31 May 2016

In defence of the ‘Dark Ages’

Charles West | 13 May 2016

English Heritage and the Dark Ages

Anna Jenkin| 14 April 2016

The ‘battered woman’ of Borsetshire and domestic violence as cause célèbre

Hannah Leach | 12 April 2016

Why Oral History matters – a sociolinguist’s journey into an oral history archive

Helen Morris | 10 March 2016

One film, one story: exploring perspectives of Suffragette on International Women’s Day

Hannah Parker | 8 March 2016

Comrades, our holiday has arrived! Reframing International Women’s Day

Neil Fleming | 10 February 2016

Revolting Grassroots: Conservative Prime Ministers and the Party Membership

Cathy Shrank | 4 February 2016

Celebrating More's Utopia 500 years on

Minesh Parekh | 29 January 2016

On #RhodesMustFall and what it means

Esme Cleall| 21 January 2016

Rhodes Must Fall: We need to face up to our imperial past

Matthew Kerry | 21 December 2015

The end of coal: an industry out of time

David Thackeray | 11 December 2015

Women’s political participation in the age of partial suffrage

James Chetwood | 10 December 2015

Where are all the plain-speaking Englishmen?

Bob Shoemaker | 1 December 2015

The Future of the (e)Book

David Swift | 24 November 2015

Women and gender in the Conservative party archive

Helen McCarthy | 13 November 2015

Suffragette: Towards a Richer Picture

June Purvis | 11 November 2015

Suffragette: A reply to its critics

Julie Gottlieb | 3 November 2015

Suffragette: The Forrest Gump of Feminism

Neil Fleming | 5 October 2015

Brexit Stage Right: Conservative Eurosceptic Campaigns

Julie Gottlieb | 30 September 2015

Telling ‘Guilty Women’ by its Cover: Putting Women in the Picture in Appeasement Studies

Tom Leng | 28 August 2015

From Palmyra to Cheapside: Iconoclasm and its Audiences

Kate Gibson | 14 August 2015

The End of the Affair? Ashley Madison and the History of Adultery

Jessica Rowan | 3 August 2015

Right Wing Women: a Feminist Issue?

Julie Gottlieb | 23 July 2015

A Right Royal Controversy: The Princess Elizabeth and the Heil

Kate Gibson | 9 July 2015

Review: The Mistresses of Cliveden by Natalie Livingstone

Wilfred Jack Rhoden | 6 July 2015

Learning the lessons of Waterloo

Richard Toye | 26 June 2015

‘The men have turned against me’: Winston Churchill and the gender politics of the 1945 election

Sam Blaxland | 23 June 2015

The right-wing women of Wales: a secret history

Julie Gottlieb | 11 June 2015

Women to the Right: The Ascendancy of Women in Conservative Politics

Eirini Karamouzi | 19 May 2015

With Europe but not of it? British post-war foreign policy and EEC membership

Charles West | 14 May 2015

England: apart from or a part of Europe? An early medieval perspective

Liam Liburd | 11 May 2015

“Happy Warriors” of the Left: #Milifandom, Politicised Masculinity and 1930s Anti-Fascism

Ryosuke Yokoe | 30 April 2015

Is Sugar Water healthier than Alcohol? The Temperance Movement and the Rise of the Soft Drink

Anna Jenkin | 29 April 2015

My week of murder in the archives: Five things I learned from #newfollowerhistoricalmurder

Charles West | 22 April 2015

Beyond Magna Carta: Some Suggestions for Teaching about Medieval Liberty

Adam James Smith | 21 April 2015

Coffee, Culture and Conversation in the Eighteenth Century

Alcuins Library | 19 March 2015

Ventriloquizing the past on social media: Bulletins from the occupied city #YorkOnThisDay 867 @AlcuinsLibrary

Nigel Cavanagh | 17 March 2015

Heritage, History and Community: Engaging with the Past in a Former Industrial Village

Aoife OConnor | 12 March 2015

Coercive Colonization: the history behind ‘Banished’s First Fleet

Michael Braddick | 10 March 2015

John Lilburne at 400

Meghan Fitzpatrick | 26 February 2015

Your Country Needs You? The British Army and the Challenges of Recruitment

Robert Moore | 23 February 2015

Magna Carta in Global Perspective

Conor O' Brien | 11 February 2015

‘Let No One Dare to Film the Lord’s Anointed’

Meghan Fitzpatrick | 4 February 2015

Redefining Tommy Atkins: Encouraging Diversity in the British Armed Forces

Catherine Fletcher | 26 January 2015

On Wolf Hall: Musings of a ‘Historical Accuracy Expert’

Frankie Baldwin and Isabel Bowden | 19 January 2015

England, Arise by Juliet Barker: The Reviews

Sean Creighton | 9 October 2014

Some reflections on Black History Month

Charles West | 4 October 2014

La Magna Carta

Kathryn Robinson | 3 October 2014

The Tube and the Blitz: A Historical Legacy

Elizabeth Goodwin, Laura Alston | 4 September 2014

The Tinsley Rolls: Revealing Sheffield’s Medieval Past

Clare Griffiths | 17 July 2014

History under the Hammer: The sale of the Royal Agricultural Society of England’s collection

Sarah Kenny| 1 July 2014

Cultural authenticity and consumerism: the end of the hipster?

Charles West | 24 June 2014

“Bloody. Brutal. Bannockburn”. Medieval Britain and modern politics

Adrian Bingham | 18 June 2014

The Battle of Orgreave, 30 Years On: Stories waiting to be told

Colin Reid | 25 May 2014

One Hundred Years of Home Rule: Devolution, Independence and the Union

Caoimhe Nic Dhaibheid | 17 May 2014

40 years on from the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: The Past in the Present in Northern Ireland

Charles West | 22 April 2014

Is Britain a ‘Christian Country’, Historically Speaking?

Clare Griffiths | 20 March 2014

Tony Benn: Man of History

Anna Geurts | 24 February 2014

Dirt or development?

Claire Hayward | 18 February 2014

A Suppression of LGBT History? The Legacy of Section 28

Adrian Bingham | 10 February 2014

No Apologies? The Miners’ Strike and the Battle over the 1980s

Charles West | 22 January 2014

Skeletons in the National Cupboard

Claudia Rogers | 11 November 2013

Chasing the War Horse: the influence of popular culture and the perks of TV history

Caroline Dodds Pennock | 8 November 2013

On This Day In History: Why Do Anniversaries Matter?

Alex Taylor | 7 November 2013

Quitting the habit: Stoptober in Jacobean England

David Holland | 23 October 2013

Sheffield’s pioneering pre-war, South Asian settlers

James Pennock | 9 September 2013

A Forgotten Field? The 500th Anniversary Of The Battle Of Flodden

Elizabeth Norton| 28 August 2013

Writing Popular History: Comfortable, Unchallenging Nostalgia-Fodder?

Mary Beard | 14 August 2013

A Classicist On Television: Expertise, Collaboration, And Unpredictable Consequences

Clare Starkie | 13 August 2013

Designed To Shine: Celebrating 100 Years Of Stainless Steel

Claire Williams | 8 August 2013

The Demolition Of The Edwardian Wing Of Jessop Hospital: Does Heritage Matter?

Charles West | 8 August 2013

The Demolition Of The Edwardian Wing Of Jessop Hospital: Balancing Heritage And Development

Adrian Bingham | 2 July 2013

Is Anyone Listening? History And Public Policy

Andrew Grierson | 14 June 2013

Why Royal DNA is Front-Page News Again

Mike Glaeser | 13 June 2013

Sheffield Crypt Mystery: Shrewsbury Vault Rediscovered, But Where Are The Bodies

Charles West | 5 June 2013

What Is An Inidgenous Anglo-Saxon? St George, St Edmund, And The Creation Of Identity

Charles West | 29 May 2013

It's About Time: On Centenaries And History-Writing

Anna Jenkin | 21 May 2013

Academic Prison Break: Beyond The Bailey And Creative Writing In Public History

Charles West | 16 may 2013

Covering Up The Feudal Revolution

Adrian Teal | 8 May 2013

The Cult Of Georgian Celebrity

David Andress | 17 April 2013

The Return Of Revolutions? Part 3: Be Careful What You Wish For

David Andress | 17 April 2013

The Return Of Revolutions? Part 2: Real Revolutions, ‘Revolutionaries’ And 'The Revolution'

David Andress | 17 April 2013

The Return Of Revolutions? Part 1: The Return That Isn’t

David Andress | 17 April 2013

The Return Of Revolutions? Intro: Margaret Thatcher As Revolutionary

David Andress | 17 April 2013

The Return Of Revolutions?

Julie Gottlieb | 10 April 2013

Which Witch Is Which? Margaret Thatcher As Lady Politician

Caroline Dodds Pennock | 9 April 2013

Please Stop Telling Me Margaret Thatcher Is A Style Icon: Gender And The Media

James Pennock| 20 March 2013

Taxing Times In 2013 And 1013: The Anglo-Saxon State We're In

Adrian Bingham | 18 March 2013

‘Don’t Throw Away Our History’? Churchill, Leveson And The ‘Freedom Of The Press’

Matthew Kerry, Abdel Razzaq Takriti | 18 March 2013

The Left And Zionism

Charles West | 16 February 2013

Jorvik and the ‘Real’ Viking Experience

Catherine Fletcher| 6 February 2013

The Divorce of Henry VIII: how book covers sell history

Catherine Fletcher | 4 February 2013

(Dead) kings and queens history: Richard III and the car park saga

Adrian Bingham | 17 December 2012

No more reports, please: Lord Leveson and the uses of history

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