Continuing our recommendations series for undergraduate History degree applicants, we spoke to Professor Naomi Standen and Dr Sadiah Qureshi.
I think pictures are a good option at this moment.
The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 30 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania.
The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.
A very accessible and heavily illustrated journal: https://edspace.american.edu/silkroadjournal/
Our Migration Story is a prize-winning site dedicated to exploring migration to Britain, from early settlers to modern arrivals. The site includes numerous stories that often go untold about migrants and their experiences’.
David Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History (2018) prize-winning book beautifully reveals the Transatlantic connections between Africa, America and Britain from the Roman period to the present day.