Ethiopian children watching a play

Africa

Turning points1956: The shock of Suez.

Winston Churchill (left) with Charles de Gaulle, c1944. The British prime minister encouraged Vichy’s colonies to rally to the Free French leader. (Getty Images)

Operation Ironclad: the WW2 battle for Madagascar.

The CIA’s secret African missions.

A painting showing British troops advancing on Ulundi, mountains in the background

The forgotten battles of the Zulu War.

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia

Haile Selassie, last emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa

The Boer War: everything you wanted to know.

Illustration of the French colonial army departing to fight under Colonel Marchand

What if...Britain and France went to war during the 1898 Fashoda Incident?.

Tourists at the Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Giza in 1923

Who was ancient Egypt’s most successful pharaoh?

Neil Faulkner reveals how the Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 helped give rise to the first modern jihad

Jihad and the British empire.

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

Soldiers disembark a landing craft with a battle on the beach beyond

How to win a 20th-century battle

In partnership with Gaijin War Thunder

Statue of Ibn Battuta at the Islamic culture center, Quanzhou, Fujian, China

Ibn Battuta: the most famous traveller of the medieval Arab world.

Nikita Khrushchev visits President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1964

Snuffed out democracies and poisoned toothpaste: how the Cold War wreaked havoc in post-colonial Africa

Benin Bronzes at the British Museum In London

What are the Benin Bronzes and why are they important? Explore the significance of the controversial treasures

A plaque which decorated the palace of the Benin Obas, The Obas butchers sacrificing a cow, the most prestigious animal sacrifice

Benin: a kingdom cast in bronze, brought to ruin by Britain.

A bas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra

The female 'kings' of ancient Egypt

The Ottoman empire: everything you wanted to know.

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies.

The slave trade: a family history.

Photo of a crocodile

Q&AWhy do we say 'crocodile tears'?

Bronwen Everill discusses the Benin Bronzes

The battle over the Benin Bronzes.

The glamour & danger of Cairo’s 1920s nightlife scene.

Second World War

Tobruk: 8 facts about the WW2 confrontation in North Africa

African Europeans.

Bust of Germanicus, Roman General

In the footsteps of Germanicus - a Roman General’s journey to Egypt.

Apartheid road sign

Your guide to apartheid in South Africa.

Welfare campaigner Emily Hobhouse

History heroAnita Anand chooses Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926).

A bust of Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt. (Photo by Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images)

Your guide to Egypt’s sun queen Nefertiti

Medieval Ethiopia’s diplomatic missions.

Tutankhamun death mask

QuizTutankhamun: do you know all the boy king’s secrets?.