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HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury Docks

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A depiction of the Haiti Rebellion

The Haitian Revolution: the enslaved Africans who rose up against France

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Rebecca Simon responds to your questions on the ‘golden age’ of piracy, when bands of buccaneers menaced the high seas, preying on merchant vessels.

The golden age of piracy: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Professor Matthew Restall tackles listener questions and popular search queries about the central American civilisation. (Image by Getty Images)

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The Maya: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Spy plane photos revealed that missile bases were being built on Cuba, prompting the crisis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What if... The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated?

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Camilla Townsend

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Cundill Prize-winner Camilla Townsend on global history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Claudia Jones at the Brixton offices of 'The West Indian Gazette'

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Black British history Britain's black trailblazers

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Stella Dadzie on the HistoryExtra podcast (Image by Getty Images)

Enslaved women & resistance . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Camilla Townsend on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

Aztecs in their own words . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Vincent Brown talks about 'Tacky's Revolt' on the HistoryExtra podcast.

An Atlantic slave war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Priest offering the heart taken from a living human victim to the Aztec sun god and god of war, Huitzilopochtli. Print of facsimile from Aztec Codex, published 1904. Human Sacrifice (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

Afua Hirsh with her ‘Enslaved’ co-presenters Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel L Jackson

Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

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François-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture

Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary life . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Seacole as seen in a contemporary photo. Although she became famous for her nursing work in the Crimean War, her story subsequently became largely forgotten. (Photo by Alamy)

History hero Bernardine Evaristo chooses Mary Seacole (1805–1881)