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.

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.

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.

NHS Expert, Dr Jack Saunders is a research fellow on the Cultural History of the NHS project at the University of Warwick. He comments on the news that the number of medical school places will increase by 25% from 2018 under plans to make England "self-sufficient" in training doctors with the expansion in training places from 6,000 to 7,500 a year,

Dr Jack Saunders, Research Fellow in the History Department at the University of Warwick provides expert insight into the cultural history of the NHS and how the impending strikes by Junior Doctors and health workers compare with previous disputes.