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Afua Hirsch in Kenya. (Photo by Clear Story/BBC)

Afua Hirsch: "The prejudice still surrounding Africa is absolutely rooted in a racist past".

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference. (Photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Donald Trump: a president without precedent?.

A late 18th-century painting of British and French sailors going head-to-head at war

The uncommon lives of common sailors.

The Hundred Years’ War: everything you wanted to know.

Exclusive podcastDan Jones on the human stories of the crusades.

Mary Toft, perpetrator of the 1726 hoax – in which she appeared to give birth to rabbits

The woman who gave birth to rabbits? How Mary Toft's hoax captured Georgian society

Floral tributes to Diana, Princess of Wales, outside Kensington Palace. (Photo by Liba Taylor/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Princess Diana's death: when grief gripped a nation.

Selim I

The extraordinary life of Sultan Selim I.

Painting of Masons building a pillar in a church

General Early Modern

Your guide to...the Freemasons

Edward the Confessor (Anglo-Saxon king of England from 1042) on his throne, as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. (Photo by Getty Images)

Edward the Confessor.

Engraving depicting a scene from the battle of Crécy, during the Hundred Years' War. Dated 14th Century. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The battle of Crécy: triumph of the longbow

King George VI and his eldest daughter, Elizabeth

The death of King George VI: what happened?

What are Roman numerals, where do they come from and how do you read them?

The Pilgrim fathers arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts on board the Mayflower. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

"They decided that God must be leading them to North America": the Puritans journey to the Mayflower.

Queen In New Zealand, 1970

In pictures: Queen Elizabeth II on tour.

Some of the 5,000 Jewish and non-Aryan German child refugees, the 'Kindertransport', arriving in England at Harwich from Germany, 2 December 1938. (Photo by Getty Images)

Revisiting the Kindertransport.

The tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, built at Saqqara

Timeline: the evolution of ancient empires.

As seen in this early 19th-century depiction of an initiation, Masons have long used secrecy to "create a sense of awe and specialness around their rituals". (Image by Alamy)

A history of Freemasonry: from Enlightenment ideals to satanic conspiracy stories

Old Norse sages describe Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir as 'the loveliest of women and nobel in every trait'. But this far-travelled Icelandic woman was eulogised largely not for her beauty and charm but as a strong-willed survivor who married three times and bore a son, Snorri, in Vinland (North America) during on of her intrepid voyages (Illustration by Lynn Hatzius)

The amazing life of a great female Viking explorer

The Aztecs: everything you wanted to know.

Exclusive podcastDominic Sandbrook on the 1980s.

Battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485

10 things you need to know about the battle of Bosworth

Richard III. (Photo by Getty Images)

Have we completely misinterpreted Shakespeare’s Richard III?.

The story of the Freemasons.

Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain as dictator from 1939 to 1975, raises his arm in salute

Francisco Franco: is it accurate to call the Spanish dictator a fascist?

People gather around the Mona Lisa painting after its return in January 1914

Mona Lisa heist: how do you steal the world's most famous painting?.

The pilgrim fathers

Your guide to the Pilgrim Fathers, plus 6 interesting facts

Print of Hannibal ferrying his elephants over the Rhone on rafts during the Second Punic War

Your guide to...the Punic Wars

Edward the Confessor, depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry

Edward the Confessor: 9 fascinating facts

Afua Hirsch with the Samburu people, Kenya

Africa’s cultural liberation.