School Resources

Four historians consider one of the most contentious questions facing the West’s museums and galleries.

Four historians consider how their discipline can best reach a mass audience. 

In Victorian Britain, attitudes towards race, gender, disability and Empire were all to be found in the popular ‘freak shows’.

A medieval myth with deep roots that captured the imagination of western Europe’s age of chivalry.

The world’s most popular fast food has ancient roots, but it was a royal seal of approval in 1889 that set pizza on the path to global domination.

Before the British Empire and the Atlantic slave trade, Africans lived freely in Tudor England.

The grand funeral of Anne of Cleves, the neglected fourth queen of Henry VIII, took place during the reign of Mary Tudor, when English Catholicism was resurgent.

A celebrated image of the first Thanksgiving presents an idealised view of a troubled relationship.

Victory at the Battle of Hastings did not guarantee William control of England. The rebellious North had to be brought into line, which it was, ruthlessly, in the winter of 1069. 

Kate Wiles provides context for the first European image of the Aztec capital, razed by the Spanish in 1521.