British history

Here you will find all the resources identified by our tutors as useful for the study of this subject, arranged in ascending alphabetical order. Browse the tiles and descriptions to discover if there are any resources of interest to you, or click on any of the keywords to see resources sorted by more in-depth topics.

British history (V210): Historical studies focusing on the British Isles.

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Title	Description	Keywords	Full details
John Aubrey Reading List	A list of books and other resources useful for students attending this course.	Seventeenth century, John Aubrey, History of Medicine, Industrial history, Exploration, English Civil War	view
The Domesday Book on-line	Describes the history of the Domesday Book, gives descritions of life at the time of its compilation, and provides information and links on...	Medieval, Local history, 11th century	view
'A World Turned Upside Down'? Revolutionary England from Civil War to Cromwell	We will explore one of the most turbulent periods in English history: the Civil War and Cromwellian era. This was a period which lives long in...	Cromwell, History, English Civil War	view
	A French cartoon satirising the supposed duplicity of British interests in Africa, from 1898. (my photo)	Queen Victoria, Victorian Culture, Victorian England, victorian history, Scramble for Africa	view
'No one can serve two masters’:1 Female recusancy and rebellion during the Elizabethan period by Maria Neary	In its literal sense ‘recusant’ means a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation. In its...	Recusant	view
1. Introduction	Introduction to Vides Volume 6 - 2018. ...		view
A border to the unknown: folk ritual and interpretations of astrological phenomena in Edmond Halley’s A Description of the Passage of the Shadow of the Moon over England (1723) and James Catnach’s almanac, The Prophetic Messenger (1833), Anya Hancock	Halley’s widely circulated broadside presents one of the earliest rational analyses of a solar eclipse. In it, the Enlightenment scientist...	Enlightenment, Astrology	view
A chivalric knight and deep sea dredging; or, ‘the everlasting thunder of the deep’ by Nicholas Pritchard	For Britons in the mid- to late nineteenth century the deep sea was starting to take a hold on the imagination. The successful...	Victorian	view
	Infamous and striking print by English artist, James Gillray. It portrays the September Massacres, 1792, which heralded the beginning of the...	French Revolution, Terror, James Gillray, September Massacres, 1792	view
A Nation in Embryo? Paine on Freedom & Tyranny	These extracts, from the first in a series of pamphlets written by Thomas Paine between 1776 and 1783, really illustrate Paine's political...	American Revolution, Georgian Britain, Thomas Paine, eighteenth century history, common sense, 1776	view

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