Period

Britain’s slaves in Latin America

A colossus at war

A big day in history: the debate on whether Britain should join the European Community

My history hero: Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

The LibraryThe Elizabethan big society

Ye olde travel guide: Acre AD 1272

Mystery and drama with the Romans and the Elizabethans

Latin American slavery and historical hair

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You’d be a mug to sneer at royal wedding souvenirs

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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Lincoln’s British enemies

Illustration by Jonty Clark

Ye olde travel guide: St Petersburg 1725

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The wise rabbi

Spain's maritime decline

Q&A: Why didn’t Britain attempt to hinder Italy’s 1935 invasion of Abyssinia by preventing the Italian fleet from using the Suez Canal?

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State control

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African skeleton could be an ancestor

Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall

The ruined site of Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, Ireland. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 2

A depiction of enslaved people in a tobacco factory in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1874

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Were enslaved people in America ever paid for their work?

A painting from a new exhibition at the V&A Museum in London. 'The Cult of Beauty' explores the 19th-century artistic movement of Aestheticism.

The cult of beauty

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The BBC Story

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Inconsiderate Hannah

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Lead books could be earliest Christian writing in existence

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April issue out now

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Obituary

Rome’s lost legion

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A shameless extrovert

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The BBC Story

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Phantom islands