Black history

Martha S Jones charts African-American women’s long and determined pursuit of the vote, and of broader political power

African-American women’s battle for the vote

Wayne Dooling answers listener questions on South Africa’s Apartheid regime. (Image by Getty Images)

Apartheid: everything you wanted to know

Pod Marjoleine Kars WL

Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded

Eddie Singh, who journeyed to the UK in the 1960s. (Image courtesy of Yvonne Singh and family)

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

A montage of Romans

How ethnically diverse was Roman Britain?

The title page and frontispiece of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative

David Olusoga on the extraordinary story of Olaudah Equiano

Tyler Stovall speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his Cundill History Prize-shortlisted book 'White Freedom'.

Liberty and racism: an interconnected history

An illustration of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865

Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire

Teachers Richard Kennett and Tom Allen discuss how they have worked with six other teachers to create a new textbook on Bristol and the transatlantic slave trade. (Image by Getty Images)

How should we teach the slave trade?

Lucy Bland discusses the childhood experiences of babies fathered by African-American GIs stationed in Britain during the Second World War. (Image from Getty Images)

Second World War

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies

Portrait of Ide B Wells

Ida B Wells: civil rights activist and scourge of lynch mobs

Meg Foster discusses the bandits that lived outside the law in Australia’s bush – from Ned Kelly to surprising lesser-known figures. (Image by Getty Images)

Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?

A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury Docks

Bound for Britain: your guide to the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush

From Roman emperors and medieval saints to enslaved people, Olivette Otele charts the long history of Africans in Europe

African Europeans