Africa

Map of Algiers, c1700. It was here that Icelanders, including Ólafur Egilsson, were sold into slavery. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Barbary pirates: kidnapped in Iceland

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Antony and Cleopatra

British soldier, explorer and big game hunter Frederick Selous, pictured in 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The hunter who became a naturalist

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General ancient history

Historical objects – toilets and medicines

Lewis Chessmen found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

The Library Objects with meanings: How artefacts can give us a new take on global history

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Zulu wars and American presidents, past and present

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Miranda Kaufmann Before 1619: Free Africans in Tudor and Stuart England before the first African Americans