History Podcast
1) Examining the future of Holocaust studies
Almost 70 years after the liberation of the concentration camps, the future of Holocaust studies has been discussed at a unique conference at the Universities of Southampton and Winchester, organised ...Show More
2) "No History, Only Biography": Recreating the Past through Biographies of People, Places and Things. Professor Barbara Yorke.
Professor Barbara Yorke discussed new developments in biography writing at the 2013 University of Southampton Reuter Lecture. She reflected on the recent renewal of popularity of biographies and talke...Show More
3) Professor Neil Gregor’s Inaugural Lecture “In memoriam: Richard Strauss and the Legacies of War”
What do people hear in music? How might that change over time? Why should that be of interest to historians? This lecture explores such questions by asking how Germans listened to Richard Strauss' ...Show More
4) To War with Wellington – from the Peninsula to Waterloo
Established in 1989, from an endowment from the Spanish Ambassador, the Wellington Lecture is given each year on the aspects of the life and times of the first Duke of Wellington. This year we were...Show More
5) Multidisciplinary research at Humanities. Contemporary German Jewish literature as a counter discourse
Find out more about the multidisciplinary research opportunities, and world renowned archive resources of the Parkes Institute and the learning culture at Humanities. Bettina Codrai gives insight int...Show More
6) Thinking of studying BA Archaeology and History?
Student Joseph Lee talks about his experience of studying a combined degree in Archaeology and History at Southampton.
7) Beethoven, Bayreuth and the Origins of the Federal Republic of Germany
Sixty years ago, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was played at the first Bayreuth Festival to be staged after the Second World War. Did it symbolise European unity or something darker? Professor Neil Grego...Show More
8) Conserving the Wellington Archives
This short video introduces the Wellington Archives, and the on-going conservation project to preserve this unique collection. The papers of Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) are ...Show More
9) Honours for leading art historian Stephen Deuchar
History graduate Stephen Deuchar accepts the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
10) The Broadlands Archives
For more than 20 years, the University of Southampton Library has held in its Special Collections Division the Broadlands Archives. The archive contains some 4,500 boxes, dating from the sixteenth cen...Show More