Central America

Photo of pipe and tobacco

Q&A Did people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

A painting in the cave of Altamira, Spain

General prehistory

The rise of Homo sapiens

A portrait of Ian Lancaster Fleming, the creator of the character James Bond

The spy who loved Jamaica

A view of English Harbour in Antigua

My favourite place: Antigua

Charles V depicted on a 16th-century gold coin.

Books interview with Kwasi Kwarteng: “Wars are bloody expensive – so the only way nations can buy what they need is by printing their own money”

Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist Cyril Lionel Robert James talking to a group of students at Speakers' Corner, London, in 1967. (Photo by Roy Milligan/Daily Express/Getty Images)

My history hero: CLR James (1901–89)

Our Lady of Sorrows, by unknown artist (20th century), photographic reproduction, 103x65 cm, inv 1602. Copyright Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosian. (Getty Images)

The day a Mexican farmer had a vision of the Virgin Mary

In the 16,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, societies in Eurasia and the Americas followed radically different trajectories. Here, an Aztec priest offers the heart taken from a living person to the god of war, Huitzilopochtli. (Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

General prehistory

The old world and the new

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Ancient Greece in the 4th-century BC and the Spanish in Mexico