Black history

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

A depiction of the Haiti Rebellion

The Haitian Revolution: the enslaved Africans who rose up against France

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Wolfson History Prize 2021 special

Tulsa race massacre: A man surveys the wreckage of homes in the Oklahoma city of Tulsa, June 1921. Two days of racist violence and destruction left what had been one of the United States’ wealthiest black communities in ruins

The 1921 Tulsa race massacre: the worst single incident of racial violence in US history

Ayanna Thompson discusses the history of blackface – a story spanning William Shakespeare, US race relations and Dartmoor Prison. (Image by Getty Images)

Blackface: a brief history

Young civil rights activists sit in defiance at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Oklahoma City, 1958

Your guide to… Jim Crow in the United States

Amelia Earhart, Princess Diana, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks and Marie Curie. (Photo by Getty Images)

20 inspirational quotes from women through history for International Women’s Day

Anna Malaika Tubbs shines a light on how Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin were influenced by their mothers

The forgotten mothers of civil rights leaders

Padraic X Scanlan discusses how slavery fuelled the British empire and explores the complicated motivations of abolitionists. (Image by Getty Images)

How slavery fuelled the British empire

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

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

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King in Washington DC, where he delivered his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech to a quarter of a million civil rights supporters in Washington DC in August 1963. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Mourning Martin Luther King Jr: the life and legacy of the civil rights leader

Colin Grant tells the stories of postwar immigrants who moved to Britain from the Caribbean.

Editor’s pick: the Windrush generation