Black history

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Emma Dabiri “Anarcha Westcott should be hailed as a ‘mother of gynaecology’”

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

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Emma Dabiri "William Cuffay's story is more relevant now than ever"

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

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Emma Dabiri "Harriet Jacobs’ writing transports readers to the world of Southern slavery"

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

Apartheid road sign

Your guide to apartheid in South Africa

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