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History & The Arts
Selling Empire: Posters
Explore the Empire Marketing Board’s posters in more detail, starting with the Highways of Empire poster.
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History & The Arts
Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
Explore the origins and role of one iconic Empire marketing institution – the Empire Marketing Board (EMB) was founded in May 1926 to encourage Empire trade, and given committees for research, marketing, and publicity.
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Society, Politics & Law
Dialogues Across Borders
Abdul Rahman Haroun walked from France to the United Kingdom. On A Wing And A Prayer is a response to that journey.
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Society, Politics & Law
Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer
Audiences, academics and the artist reflect on the video installation.
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Society, Politics & Law
On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Abdul Rahman Haroun walked from France to the United Kingdom. On A Wing And A Prayer is a response to that journey.
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Society, Politics & Law
From a distance
From a Distance: A conversation on the ethics of representing the refugee crisis between Umut Erel and Behjat Omer Abdulla
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Society, Politics & Law
The influence of From A Distance on audiences and participants
How the Tate visitors got close to From A Distance.
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History & The Arts
Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast
Learn about the significance of live music as a unifying force between diverse communities in 1970s Belfast.
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History & The Arts
What do historians do?
What do historians do? In this free course you will explore some of the ways that historians work to develop our understanding of the past. You will learn about three aspects of the historian’s craft through three topic areas: landscapes, infant health and criminal justice. Through the activities in the course, you will experience a wide range ...
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History & The Arts
Two kings, two very different coronations
The upcoming coronation of King Charles III on 6th May has been billed as a modern and pared back version of the centuries-old ceremony at Westminster Abbey, with a modest guest list and a shorter run time than the last coronation in 1953.
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History & The Arts
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
In this free course you’ll examine one of Agatha Christie’s most significant works, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and explore the evolution of British detective fiction in relation to Christie’s background, literary modernism and the development of middlebrow fiction.
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History & The Arts
The Life of Saint George
This extract from Alban Butler's 18th Century work on the lives of the saints tells the story of England's patron saint.