Africa

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June/July 2017 issue of BBC World Histories out now

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Ruth Williams Khama: first lady of Botswana

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Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial

Detail from a funerary papyrus dating from the 21st Dynasty (11th-10th century BC). Four figures in a boat, including the ibis-headed god Thoth and the scarab-headed god Khepri. Located in the Louvre, Paris. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

8 ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses that you (probably) didn’t know about

An acrobat dancer, c1200 BC. (Getty Images)

Love, sex and marriage in ancient Egypt

View of Algiers with mediterranean galleys, published in Johannes van Keulen's Dutch Atlas, 1709. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

When Britons were slaves in Africa

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Men of the SAS returning from a three-month trip behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

Interview with Ben Macintyre: “They changed the way war is run”

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Black British history and Charles I’s children

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (centre) at a UN Security Council meeting concerning the Suez crisis. (Photo by Lisa Larsen/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary and the crisis that shook the world

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The most popular historical figures you’ve (probably) never heard of

The Valletta skyline – in the centre is St Paul's Anglican Cathedral and Carmelite Church. (Photo by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Malta

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A portrait of Queen Elizabeth I painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

How Shakespeare rewrote history

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Elizabeth I’s Armada portrait. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images

The Tudors’ unlikely allies

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A seated statue of Hatshepsut, one of the longest-reigning and most prominent female pharaohs of ancient Egypt. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

Life of the Week: Hatshepsut