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Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

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Image of black people protesting. (GettyImages_1153422488)

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Black British historyA timeline of key moments

Photo of the Jarrow March

20th Century

The Jarrow marchThe lasting legacy of the 1936 protest

The election of Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s first female prime minister

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The Unesco world heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Sara Forbes Bonetta (seated besides her husband James Davies was brought to England in the late 1840s by a Navy captain. Presented to Queen Victoria, she impressed the monarch so much that Victoria became her godmother

20th Century

Black History MonthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, plus 7 articles you should read

The skeleton exhumed from beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. The remains contained features matching Tudor descriptions of Richard III, and injuries to the skull and body inflicted at the battle of Bosworth in 1485

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A missionary preaches to the Native Americans of Massachusetts, c1650. By now, colonists were imposing their values on the indigenous population, encouraging them to dress like the English – and worship the English God. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone/Getty Images)

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General History

Black British historyKey questions answered

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Charles V of Spain depicted on a 16th-century gold coin

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Kwasi Kwarteng"Wars are bloody expensive – so the only way nations can buy what they need is by printing their own money". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Coloured engraving of Malintzin

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The Rosetta Stone is covered in three scripts, which allowed for the translation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

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Rosetta StoneWhat is it and why is it important?

The Rosetta Stone

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Image of Empress Matilda

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Adam Henson and Robert Bakewell

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The leader of the Luddites, 1812. Found in the collection of British Museum. Anonymous artist. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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5 of the worst years in British history

Benito Mussolini

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A loan transaction being recorded in a ledger, shown in a work by Marinus Van Reymerswaele

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Mussolini salutes in front of the statue of the Roman emperor Nerva, in the 1930s

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How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism

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(L to R) Elizabeth I, Charles II and Edward VII

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British writer Hilary Mantel photographed at home

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Rosa Parks rides on a Montgomery bus

20th Century

50 important historical events: from Sutton Hoo to Rosa Parks

Around 200,000 freed slaves, like this soldier, joined the Union military in the Civil Wa

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The Emancipation ProclamationYour guide to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation

James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England and Ireland) and his young wife, Anna of Denmark

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Crowds line the streets to watch the funeral cortege of Queen Victoria in February 1901. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Prince Charles in 1969

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King Charles IIIThe life of the reigning king

Lucy Worsley. (Photography by Frank Monks)

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