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The course aims to offer an overview of the diverse artistic, social, and religious and secular cultural life in the Byzantine Empire which contributed to the development of the greatest European medieval empire.

This series examines successful Prime Ministers who secured re-election after serving at least one term in office. It explores how they gained and maintained power, focusing on political ideology, campaign strategies and leadership.

Would you like to learn how to read medieval handwriting in original documents? Join us for this weekend event, studying the basics of the most common scripts, covering the history of handwriting and taking practical examples from popular record types.

Crimea has always been too tempting a trophy to resist. It carries the scars of successive civilisations that have claimed, shaped, and reshaped it. To this day, it remains a prize fought over by competing peoples and ideologies.

This lecture series will evaluate the most controversial decisions in international relations since the end of the Cold War. It focuses on the balance of decision making between diplomacy and military conflict.

Discover Aphrodite beyond the familiar goddess of beauty: a powerful and complex deity of love, desire and persuasion, whose influence shaped Greek religion, myth and literature - and whose power could be creative, compelling and dangerous.

This course examines the institution of human slavery in the southern United States from its colonial beginnings, to its emergence as the most powerful slave system in the world, to its collapse during the Civil War.

What was life like in Britain between 1914-1918? How dramatic were the changes within society as the country faced up to the needs of total war? We will explore the way war had an unprecedented effect on the lives of Britons during these crucial years.

Discover Alexander the Great, unparalleled in his capacity to captivate the collective imagination, serving not only as an exemplar for world rulers, but also as a popular figure in various works of art and literature with this in-person day event.

This course examines the rise and fall of the British Empire and its manifold legacies in Britain and beyond.

Using a variety of examples drawn from global history, this course explores controversies in the history of medicine and the way in which they have impacted on practitioners, patients and wider communities.

The Second World War’s origins lay in the economic and political instability which dominated the years after 1919. During this short online course, explore and analyse how such a terrible conflict could have started.