Captain Cook Lays Waste to Moorea
This extract from Frank McLynn’s, Captain Cook: Master of the Seas, describes what happened in October 1777 when,…
British History
Christmas in Medieval England
In this extract from Going to Church in Medieval England, author Nicholas Orme discusses the customs, feasts and…
Christmas at the Country House
In this special festive blog, Yale author Clive Aslet welcomes us in to sit by a warm hearth…
The Story of Stansted Park
Architecture is about many things – building style, social change, technological advance, but also the human needs and…
Cromwell: A Killjoy Regime?
The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then…
Marking Time: Objects in Early Modern History
During the early modern period, people’s relationship with the concept of time and their personal experience of it…
Marking Time: Objects, People & Their Lives, 1500-1800
How do we measure the days of our lives? Through more than 450 objects from an extraordinary private…
The MI9 competition: How to decipher a letter encrypted with MI9 code
Try your hand at deciphering this MI9-inspired coded letter for a chance to win Helen Fry’s books on…
The men behind MI9’s Q-gadgets: Christopher Clayton Hutton and Charles Fraser Smith
MI9’s ‘Q-gadgets’ have made it into the public imagination through the adventures of James Bond. But who was…
The Mayflower – 400th Anniversary: An extract from ‘They Knew They Were Pilgrims’
September 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the departure from Plymouth of the ship the Mayflower which transported…
Conversations: Colonialism
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in…
Conversations: History of Slavery
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in…
The Field of Cloth of Gold – 500th anniversary
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the Second World War
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the Industrial Revolution
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…