Black history

Isabel Wilkerson. (Photo by Alamy)

Isabel Wilkerson on caste in America

Afua Hirsch with the Samburu people, Kenya

Africa’s cultural liberation

View of East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Photo by Library of Congress)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the American Civil War, but were afraid to ask

The magnificent ruins of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani

Africa’s medieval golden age

National guardsmen confront confront citizens during Chicago's race riots

Red summer of 1919: the history of Chicago’s race riots

American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, c 1866. (Photo by Shutterstock)

African American abolitionists in Britain

Richard III

57 history questions for your home pub quiz (updated)

Harriet Tubman (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell

Paul Stephenson and Guy Bailey

The great British civil rights scandal: the Bristol bus boycott

'Tippoo's Tiger', made for Tipu Sultan. (Photo by Alamy)

General ancient history

Museums and colonialism

A family comprising several generations of enslaved people. Resistance, common throughout the history of slavery, ranged from slow working to violent fights for freedom (Universal History Archive/Gertty Images)

Freedom fighters: the enslaved people who fought for the abolition of slavery

The ship ‘Jesus of Lübeck’ was used in John Hawkins’ infamous early slaving voyages, some of which were sponsored by Elizabeth I. (Image by Alamy)

Were there slaves in Elizabethan England?

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury Docks

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

English admiral Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), circa 1585. (Photo by Getty Images)

Francis Drake: slave trader

Francis Drake portrait

Francis Drake’s forgotten role in the English slave trade