Joshua de Cruz represents a little-considered colonial community who were formed, from the 16th to 20th centuries, by the successive European incursions into Asia for treasure, trade and territory. He explains how mixed-race peoples became a separate community in British Malaya in the first half of the last century, how they were characterised and classified by colonial administrators and by chroniclers of the imperial age – Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and W. Somerset Maugham, and how these (mis)representations came to define and diminish them.
James Jefferies talks to us about Bomber Command in the Battle of Britain. The narrative of the Battle of Britain has frequently been one of Britain under siege which is often defined by a handful of fighter pilots of the RAF, known as ‘the few’, defending the skies over Britain. However, the Ba...
Family history beyond Chris Walklett's grandparents on his father’s side was a complete mystery to his family. Despite various attempts to uncover the truth, nobody knew for sure where they had come from although all sorts of rumours and suppositions abounded. As a history student in a pre-intern...
For History Indoors’ last talk of 2020 before the winter break, Amy Saunders and Sam Woodward talk all things Christmas! In this panel discussion, Amy talks about the Victorian origins of the Christmas card and how the tradition developed, whilst Sam takes a look at advertising and the impact tha...
