Channel Title: History Hub Channel Description: History Hub was created as part of 'Citizens: 800 years in the making', a National Lottery Heritage Fund supported project led by Dr Matthew Smith at Royal Holloway, University of London. It explores the history of liberty, protest, rebellion and reform from Magna Carta to the Suffragettes and beyond. History Hub has been designed not just as a free resource for schools and colleges but as a space where Royal Holloway students and early career researchers can gain experience in researching, script writing, and presenting educational videos. Regular contributors have included: Dr Claire Kennan, Dr Steven Franklin, Dr Katie Carpenter, Angela Platt, Elena Rossi, Sam Angell and Dr Michaela Jones. To learn more about Citizens visit our website or follow us on Twitter @Citizens800, and for more news from the Department of History at Royal Holloway follow @RHULHistory. <video> Dictatorships and authoritarianism in the Islamic World Description: In this video, filmed in January 2022, Dr Markus Daeschel explores the complex historical reasons why so many countries in the Muslim world have found themselves governed by coercive, authoritarian governments. Thumbnail Image: Bashar al-Assad, CC4.0 www.kremlin.ru </video> <video> The Cold War origins of International Aid Description: In this video Dr Markus Daechsel introduces the Cold War origins of the story of international development aid in the 1950s. </video> <video> 'A citizen of the world', Richard Price, 1789 Description: </video> <video> Thomas Jackson's pro-magistrate account of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre | Archives Alive: Peterloo Description: Performed by Gareth Leighton. MB01UXY0OJSMWZY </video> <video> 'Real Reform', Political Register, 1816, William Cobbett Description: </video> <video> 'Educate to form Citizens', Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792 Description: In this excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft speaks of the responsibility of public education for forming citizens and nurturing virtues like empathy. </video> <video> Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England Description: In this video Dr Claire Kennan explores how, without a police force, law and order was maintained in Anglo-Saxon England. </video> <video> 'Immediate, not gradual abolition', Elizabeth Heyrick, 1824 Description: </video> <video> Thomas Paine on Sovereignty, The Rights of Man, 1791 Description: In this quote from Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man, part 1, published in 1791, Paine argues that sovereignty does not reside in a hereditary monarch but with the nation and its people. </video> <video> 'Natural Rights', A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft Description: Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the first radical thinkers to challenge Edmund Burke's condemnation of the French Revolution. In this quote, Wollstonecraft contrasts Burke's focus on ancient liberties with the idea of natural rights. #Quotes #midjourney Music by Sersal Studio, licensed via Envato Elements (QWJSR7CVLH) </video> <video> 'Freedom of Speech', Charles James Fox, 1795 Description: </video> <video> 'The cause of America', Common Sense, 1776, Thomas Paine Description: In this quote from Common Sense, published in 1776, Thomas Paine, one of the most influential thinkers in British radicalism, argued that the cause of the American colonists was the cause of all mankind. #Quotes #Midjourney Music by Sersal Studio, licensed via Envato Elements (SGNHTCZD7F) </video> <video> The Taff Vale Case | Origins of the Labour Party Description: In this video we explore the significance and legacy of the Taff Vale case, 1900-1902. </video> <video> William Gladstone and Home Rule for Ireland Description: William Gladstone on the question of Home Rule for Ireland. Performed by Cameron Robertson. License: MB01DH6EI6GHJGH </video> <video> Charles I disputes the legality of the Court | The Trial of Charles I, 1649 | The English Civil War Description: In this video Simon Blake reads some of the arguments Charles I made in his trial for treason and waging war against the people, highlighting how a key tactic of the king was to challenge the authority of the court. </video>

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History Hub was created as part of 'Citizens: 800 years in the making', a National Lottery Heritage Fund supported project led by Dr Matthew Smith at Royal Holloway, University of London. It explores the history of liberty, protest, rebellion and reform from Magna Carta to the Suffragettes and beyond.

History Hub has been designed not just as a free resource for schools and colleges but as a space where Royal Holloway students and early career researchers can gain experience in researching, script writing, and presenting educational videos.

Regular contributors have included: Dr Claire Kennan, Dr Steven Franklin, Dr Katie Carpenter, Angela Platt, Elena Rossi, Sam Angell and Dr Michaela Jones.

To learn more about Citizens visit our website or follow us on Twitter @Citizens800, and for more news from the Department of History at Royal Holloway follow @RHULHistory.

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