Explore the range and variety of subjects that we teach and research in the History Department at Southampton by dipping into some of our taster lectures below.

Professor Maria Hayward: ‘Six: The Lives of the Wives of Henry VIII’

Professor Neil Gregor: ‘Historians and Hitler since 1945’

Professor Christer Petley: ‘Why did the British abollish the slave trade?’

Dr Elisabeth Forster: ‘Atomic bombs and paper tigers: China and the atomic bomb in the Cold War’

Dr Elisbeth Forster: ‘China’s May Fourth Movement’

Professor Mark Stoyle: ‘Witchcraft in England’

Dr Helen Spurling: ‘Resistance to empire in the Ancient World’

Dr John McAleer: ‘The East India Company: The company that changed the world’

Dr Chris Fuller: ‘The roots of the Cold War’

Dr Nick Karn: ‘Castles’

Dr George Gilbert: ‘Russia in revolution’

Professor Mark Cornwall: ‘What is treason?’

Professor Kendrick Oliver: ‘Explaining McCarthyism’

Dr Hormoz Ebrahimnedjad: ‘Women, Islamism and the Iranian Revolution’

Dr John McAleer: ‘The voyages of Captain Cook’

Dr David Cox: ‘Histories of Racism’