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Apartheid road sign

Your guide to apartheid in South Africa. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Your guide to...debtors' prisons

Painting of the Field of Cloth of Gold (artist unknown) from around 1545

Your guide to...the Field of the Cloth of Gold

Painting of Pope Callixtus II, the first Borgia pope, though it would be his nephew Rodrigo (later Pope Alexander VI) who would earn great infamy

Your guide to...the Borgias

Limestone relief depicting a a procession of courtiers paying homage to the Ahiram, king of the Phoenician city of Byblos

General ancient history

Your guide to...the Phoenicians

Painting of Masons building a pillar in a church

General Early Modern

Your guide to...the Freemasons

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

Your guide to...the Punic Wars

Illustration of last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, surrendering to the 'barbarian' Odoacer

Your guide to...the fall of Rome

Illustration of Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels along the Silk Road to China

General ancient history

Your guide to...the Silk Road

Egyptian ships sunk at the entrance of the Suez Canal at Port Said

Your guide to...the Suez Crisis

The battle of First Bar, 1841

Your guide to...the Opium Wars

Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Privy Council

Your guide to...the Privy Council

Painting of an auto-da-fé

Your guide to...the Spanish Inquisition

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