• Skip to main content
  • Skip to after header navigation
  • Skip to site footer
Our history archive

Our History

Documenting world history and civil rights

General

  • About
  • Cookies and your privacy
  • Privacy policy
  • Contact

Categories

  • Home
  • Colonisation
  • World History
  • Civil Rights
  • World cultures
  • Features
  • Wellbeing
  • Popular Culture
  • Home
  • Colonisation
  • World History
  • Civil Rights
  • World cultures
  • Features
  • Wellbeing
  • Popular Culture

Exercise

woman and man holding hands beside brown dog while walking on green grasses surrounded by green leafed trees

The benefits of walking: How to stay fit with a busy schedule

What are the benefits of walking? If you’re like most people, your answer probably involves losing weight and improving heart health. While these are both accurate statements, there is much more to …
confident woman with towel running in park

We need to stop comparing ourselves to fitness influencers

As the fitness industry has grown, so too has the influencer culture around it. Fitness bloggers and Instagrammers are now celebrities in their own right, with millions of followers. And as with any …
woman doing push ups

Home workout: Best five exercises to do at home

It’s the New year and you may be thinking about a new trimmer, fitter you for 2022 but you aren’t quite ready to venture out to the gym. Many people will want to shed a couple of …
walking in nature

How walking in nature can help ease depression

Depression is one of the most common mental health problems. It can lead to a wide range of emotional and physical problems. Fortunately, there are many ways to treat depression. Some people may need …
Older people exercise

Lifelong exercise is key to keeping your brain healthy in old age

People who keep their fitness level up as a child and adult, through activity three or four times a week, improve their cognitive functioning at 50, a research has claimed. People perform better in …
photo of person wearing red shoes

Walking in the cold could help burn calories

Going for a walk in the cold after a meal could help people lose weight as low temperatures prompt the body to burn calories, research suggests. Cool temperatures may activate “good” fat in the …
person stands on brown pathway

Walking may ease symptoms of mild to moderate depression

With depression so prevalent, identifying treatments is a pressing need. Research has been looking at non-medical options that people can do themselves to improve their mental health. According to …

Sidebar

This Day In History

Events in History
On this day in 1990 Nelson Mandela, who was the leader of the movement to end South African apartheid was released from prison after 27 years.

Trending

  • Understanding Sharia Law: Principles, practice, and global context
    Understanding Sharia Law: Principles, practice, and global context
  • Genghis Khan: The making of the Mongol Empire
    Genghis Khan: The making of the Mongol Empire
  • McCarthyism and the Cold War: America's Second Red Scare
    McCarthyism and the Cold War: America's Second Red Scare
  • What are British values?
    What are British values?
  • Pancake Day: A tradition of faith and feasting
    Pancake Day: A tradition of faith and feasting
  • This John Hanson was not the first Black President of the United States
    This John Hanson was not the first Black President of the United States
  • Women's suffrage movement in Britain
    Women's suffrage movement in Britain
  • Five countries that colonised the world
    Five countries that colonised the world
  • The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire: Six centuries of imperial power
    The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire: Six centuries of imperial power
  • The history of South Africa: From colonisation to independence
    The history of South Africa: From colonisation to independence

Connect

  • YouTube
  • TikTok
  • Bluesky
  • About
  • Cookies and your privacy
  • Privacy policy
  • Contact

Copyright © 2026 · Our History · All Rights Reserved