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20th Century

Black and white image of several African men pushing two French missionaries in a sort of chair with wheels.

Think pieceWhy history must take a stance

West Indian recruits lift logs in training at a WW2 air base

OpinionWhy WW2 commemorations need to recognise the Black contribution

Historical recipeHomity pie

Living through the fall of communism

Zazie Beetz and Jonathan Majors in the Netflix film The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall: the real cowboys who inspired the black Western

Johnny Hopper: a nerveless Nazi-killer

Historical recipeFish Sausages

Black cowboys on screen

Doctor Who through the ages

Windows on to history

Sylvia Plath seated in front of a bookshelf.

The tragic story behind Sylvia Plath’s writing

How a ballerina survived the Gulag

Anna Whitelock's Talking PointsA history of violence

Afghanistan: a history of instability

Workers package Chicken Ramen, the first mass-produced instant noodles, in a factory in Japan, c1960

The age of noodles: Momofuku Ando and the rise of ramen in post-war Japan

How dogs shaped city life

Gulielma Lister: the female botanist who became the queen of slime moulds

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesAlanbrooke Hall, Belfast

African-American women’s battle for the vote

Asia’s anti-imperial revolutionaries

Historian Saul David

Saul David“It was astonishing bravery – and cold-blooded bravery, too”

Suffragettes photographed in a dispute with the police

Jujitsu suffragettes: how women fought for the vote with an ancient martial art

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia

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

A homemade ouija board, a treasure hunt and fake madness: the great escape of World War I

Apartheid: everything you wanted to know

A West Indian immigrant in 1960s Britain: A real lonely Londoner

Portrait of First World War nurse Edith Cavell with one of her dogs

First World War

Edith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peace

Unexpected Edwardians

Plagues of our past

Courage under fire: the story of a WW2 tank regiment