EXPs in History

A brief history of reproduction

How astrologers practiced early medicine

The new America's political order

American government: the balance of power

The foundations of American nationalism

The fragility of Middle Eastern States

Art and resistance in the Middle East

Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa

Indian presence in Bloomsbury and in British Literary History:

The long line of Black and Asian British literature

Anxiety and capitalism: The golden couple

The complex question of when a revolution ends

A brief history of great revolutions

Gender violence and equality in modern India

Gandhi and the development of Indian democracy

Global India, democracy and violence

How violence became quintessential to the idea of the Modern State

Why the history of feminism has blind spots

The Enlightenment and early modern feminism

The Black Death: Society under pressure

A brief history of the Virgin Mary

Organising Christianity in the 1100s

Why Marx still matters today

Engels, Lenin and the development of Marxism

Understanding Marx in context

Denazification and culture in post-war Germany

Closing the book on colonisation

The Nuremberg moment and the birth of international law

The imperial gardener: at home with Napoleon

From progress to excess: The revolutionary life of Robespierre

Lessons from the French Revolution

Touch: the most powerful of our senses

A brief history of Iconoclasm

A brief biography of Simone de Beauvoir

Sartre, Beauvoir and existentialism

The fragility of the European Union as a democracy of democracies

The EU's eastward enlargement and the crisis of the democratic dream

1989: Economic and cultural transformations in Eastern Europe

Spinoza and the relationship between the body and the mind

Spinoza, the philosopher, and the virtue of fortitude

Rosa Luxemburg: revolution and the power of democracy

How Britain got to Brexit

What we learn from Greek tragedy

The Reconstruction Era and the unfinished American Revolution

The origins of Black politics in the US

Equal voting rights in the United States

Poetry and harmony in Ancient Greece

The Greek War of Independence and its impact on European identity

The Greek miracle and the invention of national discourse in Ancient Greece

The Thucydides Trap and the History of War

The neoliberal transformation of the French Republic

The myths around technology

What is technology?

Kant and the Enlightenment

Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin and women's roles in the history of science

Science and The State?

Isaac Newton, a man of science and religion

Failed arguments for a European Union: 1919-1939

Visions of a unified Europe after 1815

Napoleon's Europe and the question of commercial union

The idea of a European Union in the 18th century

Immigration, religion and the return of the British Empire

How Islam came to be a global phenomenon

Gandhi's leadership, vision of sacrifice and the ends of universalism

The history of thinking about wellbeing

China's growing influence in the Asia-Pacific region

China's role in the United Nations and its increasing soft power

The end of the cold war and a new world coming

The rise and fall of Empires: from the Opium War to the great wars

The world in 1500 and the emergence of global consciousness

The fate of citizenship

Why wars happen

The First World War: the first total war

A brief history of war

What human rights missed: the larger agenda

A brief history of human rights

The human rights journey, from moral philosophy to the political forum

Private life behind the Berlin Wall in East Germany

The legacy of 1989 for Eastern Europe and the European Union

Civilisation in crisis: the history of a concept

America's new gilded age: the risks

American capitalism and the role of government

American capitalism and slavery

The dynamic of changes in the Arab world

The Arab-Israeli War and the creation of Israel

The fall of the Ottoman Empire

The psychological drivers of terrorism, radicalisation and fundamentalism

The Resolution of Intractable Conflict

Vienna and the Holocaust

Looking at Dürer's apocalypse and self-portrait

Albrecht Dürer: the first global artist

A new conversation about the legacy of slavery

The relationship between capitalism and slavery

The history of slavery in the British Empire

de Gaulle's thinking on Europe and France's sovereignty

The Fifth Republic and de Gaulle's legacies in modern France

Charles de Gaulle and France's nostalgia for greatness

Modern China and the Marxist-Leninist tradition

The importance of Confucius to understanding modern China

What shaped modern China

Darwin's thoughts on human nature

The exceptional influence of Charles Darwin

Conspiracy theories: from Nazi Germany to today

Nazi exterminism and the Holocaust

The catastrophe that brought Hitler and Nazi Germany to power

Learning from economic crises

The resurgence of fascism: memory as a warning

Post-war ideals and the political aftermath of World War II

Was Hiroshima a war crime?

The legacy of the ancient Greek world

A brief history of citizenship laws

The planet's time machine

Why statistics can be controversial and how important they are

Experiences of the feminist past to resist sexism and patriarchy

The origins of feminism: why and how women demanded change

A history of global feminisms

Feminist activism across the generations

Modern democracy and what we mean by it

Emotions: good, bad and maddening

A brief history of extreme emotions in the West

Women and the mind doctors

Holocaust memories and the legacy of the second-generation