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Emmett TillThe murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement.

Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats.

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of "Ashley's sack".

Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast), c1880. Although Britain outlawed slavery in 1833 and it was abolished in the USA after the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War in 1865, the transatlantic trade in African slaves continued. The main market for the slaves was Brazil, where slavery was not abolished until 1888. (Colorised black and white print). Artist Unknown.. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

General History

Black British historySlavery's painful legacy

Black History MonthThe slave who stole a ship and sailed to freedom.

The Unesco world heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. (Photo by Getty Images)

Black British historyBlack Britannia.

The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history.

Black British history: everything you wanted to know.

Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

My history heroPaterson Joseph chooses Ignatius Sancho.

Image of black people protesting. (GettyImages_1153422488)

General History

Black British historyA timeline of key moments

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

Hakim Adi

Hakim Adi“There’s still this hangover that everything has to be seen through the prism of enslavement”.

Around 200,000 freed slaves, like this soldier, joined the Union military in the Civil Wa

The Emancipation ProclamationYour guide to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation

African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history.

St Hadrian of CanterburyMedieval African theologian.

How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail.

Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South.

A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

BBC at 100Mirroring Multicultural Britain.

African-American philanthropy.

A painting of Lisbon depicts conspicuous displays of Portuguese imperial wealth and power – including enslaved African people

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

A group of formerly enslaved African-Americans around the time of the US Civil War

Why we should remember…The Amnesty Act of 1872

Kris Manjapra“Black communities have had to pay for the failures of emancipation”.

The failings of emancipation.

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

20 inspirational quotes from women through history

Three female civil rights pioneers.

Ras Prince Monolulu entertains the crowds at Aintree racecourse, 1931 (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Ras Prince Monolulu: the horse-race tipster who transformed himself into an Abyssinian prince.

The Gilded Age preview: “Entry into a world that really hasn't been covered on television before”

Escaping slavery in the American South.