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Dr Martin Luther King Jr speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building.

General History

Black history podcast episodes

Pupils at a primary school in London

Are black histories still being overlooked?

Sara Forbes Bonetta (seated besides her husband James Davies was brought to England in the late 1840s by a Navy captain. Presented to Queen Victoria, she impressed the monarch so much that Victoria became her godmother

Black History MonthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, plus 7 articles you should read

Pauline Black and Billie Holiday

My history heroPauline Black chooses Billie Holiday.

An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

David Olusoga"Black history affects all of us – it is British history".

Image of black people protesting. (GettyImages_1153422488)

General History

Black British historyA timeline of key moments

Image of Somalians meeting in a cafe

General History

Black British historyKey questions answered

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "Britain’s first black editor achieved so much in such a short life"

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

Black British historyBritain's black trailblazers.

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "Samba schools used the carnival to foreground overlooked histories".

Black America on British airwaves.

A multicoloured photo collage, including an Indian soldier in WW1 military uniform, a woman dressed in dark jacket, cap and tie

"There's little understanding of the shared history of Britain and the subcontinent" | South Asian Heritage Month.

Books of the Year 2025

BBC History Magazine's 2025 Books of the Year37 best books for history lovers

Clothes infected by the Black Death are burned in medieval Europe, c1340. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Black Death facts: your guide to "the worst catastrophe in recorded history"

The effects of the disease known as the Black Death

History quiz: how much do you know about the Black Death?.

A montage of moments and faces from history.

General History

What are the best history podcasts? These picks are the perfect way step into the past

7 June

An illustration of a witch on a broomstick, wearing a pointed hat.

General History

Why do ‘wicked’ witches wear pointed hats? The real history explained

24 June

A red and black illustration showing a large wolf jumping up, above a man laying on the floor. Around the central wolf, there are several others

Spectral beasts and hounds of hell: a spooky history of Britain's ghost dogs.

15 April

13 May

Ilustration of a pair of hands holding a book called 'Summer Reading 2025'. There is a bookshelf in the background

General History

28 of the best history summer reads for 2025

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "I wish that there was no need for specialist history months".

16 January

6 May

King George V crosses a river in Nepal, 1912. “Historians have moved the discussion on empire in all sorts of directions over many years,” says Bronwen Everill. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

The challenge of writing histories of the British empire.

The history of Africa: why we need to look much deeper than slavery and colonisation.

21 April

8 May