Expert Comment
Mexico mass grave: Severed heads and 32 bodies found
A brief comment by Dr Ben Smith, Department of History, regarding the mass grace discovered in Mexico..
The First Woman to Run for President, Dr Rebecca Stone comments on BBC Midlands Today Evening News
Dr Rebecca Stone, Teaching Fellow in North American History took part in an interview recently on BBC Midlands Today discussing the first woman to run for the Presidency of the United States,
How significant was the Suez Crisis? Andrew Jones asks how significant the Suez really was
The 1956 Suez Crisis is widely remembered as a critical event in post-war British history, which helped bring to an end the era of Britain as a global empire and superpower. Sixty years on, Andrew Jones, Teaching Fellow in Imperial History asks how significant Suez really was, and why it continues to resonate in British popular memory.
'Queen Victoria truly did enjoy a Victoria sponge' says Food Historian Professor Earle
Professor Rebecca Earle, published Food Historian in the History Department, investigates the sumptuous history of the Victoria sponge hot on the heels of a Victorian themed British Bake-off final.
1940: the year Mexico legalised drugs, Dr Benjamin Smith investigates
Dr Benjamin Smith is reader of Latin American history in the History department, specialising in modern Mexican history. Here he investigates how on 5 January 1940, Mexico’s left-wing president, Lázaro Cárdenas, signed the new Federal Regulation of Drug Addiction into law.