• D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and the British Military Nursing Services

  Operation Overlord, the invasion of Europe known as D-Day, began on 6 June 1944. 12,000 British military nurses served during World War II, many of these during the aftermath of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. In this article, explore what it was like to be a nurse at this time.

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• Good Churchill, bad Churchill?

  Everyone has an opinion on former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. We take a look at some of the highlights as well as the controversies of his career.

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• Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline

  Track the key events in Adolf Hitler's life, including his childhood in Austria, his decisions as Fuehrer of Germany, his leadership in the Second World War, and his eventual suicide.

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• What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?

  Was Edward VIII a Nazi sympathiser? Damning evidence in the archives suggests he wanted England bombed to force an Anglo-German alliance?

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• Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

  Ian Kershaw, renowned as one of the leading experts on the Third Reich, unpicks the question of how history should view Adolf Hitler.

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• The Bletchley Park connection

  The once-hidden connection between Asa Briggs, Mary Siepmann, Alan Turing and many others—an estate used by British codebreakers during the Second World War.

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• Empires: power, resistance, legacies

  Empires have existed throughout most of human history. They have spanned the globe. They have influenced the way we are governed, our systems of trade, how we use technology, our relationships with the natural world. They have shaped how we have seen, mapped and divided the world. They have profoundly affected how we have understood and ...

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• The First World War: trauma and memory

  In this free course, The First World War: trauma and memory, you will study the subject of physical and mental trauma, its treatments and its representation. You will focus not only on the trauma experienced by combatants but also the effects of the First World War on civilian populations.

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• 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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