Online History Courses

Take a journey through a century of bold creativity where artists, musicians, and writers challenged authority and reshaped Latin American society.

Explore how AI and digital tools are reshaping archaeology and heritage. Reflect on the ethics, power and promise of preserving the past in a data-driven world. Discuss why heritage still matters.

Trace the history of pearls from 5000 BCE to the 21st century. Did Cleopatra drink a pearl cocktail? Where can you harvest black pearls? Who wrote the Pearl Fishers? How has global warming affected pearl production?

To understand China of our present means understanding China of the past. Join us  a taste of the histories of the Ming and Qing Dynasties from 1368 to the new Republican era in 1912?

Eat you way around India, China and Japan through the eyes of Edward Terry and others. The Mongols in China and the Turkic conquerors of India initiated a fusion of cooking traditions still apparent today.

Explore two critical dictatorships of Latin America, Argentina and Chile, through the study of some of their historical and political contexts and current legacies in these countries' histories.

Queen Anne was the last of the Stuarts and suffered much personal tragedy but she ruled over an increasingly prosperous nation that had unprecedented military success in Europe under the Duke of Marlborough

Discover the rich history of Cuba from its colonial period through its independence movements, culminating in the Cuban Revolution. Students will explore the key events, actors, and forces that have shaped Cuba, including José Marti, Fidel Castro, the Cuban Missile Crisis and more!

The course examines the main developments in British politics, economy and society between 1929 and 1945 from the Great Depression to the 1945 Labour landslide.

Step into the world of murderous, usurping kings and those who were fortunate only to endure captivity. In considering royal deaths we ask: who had an argument with a poker; who was killed by a pig, and who died on the toilet?