Black history

Emmett Till funeral

American spotlight: how today’s protests echo historical outrage

A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?', 1774. (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain and the slave trade

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King

Everything you ever wanted to know about the civil rights movement, but were afraid to ask

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From Nelson to Churchill: challenging British heroes with Afua Hirsch

Men operate a cotton gin in Dahomey, Mississippi, in 1898

7 key questions about the transatlantic slave trade – answered

An African man after being liberated from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, 1871. In all, more than 12 million captives were loaded onto Atlantic slavers’ vessels. (Pictures from History/Bridgeman Images)

A brief guide to the transatlantic slave trade

1774: A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?'. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Abolition in Britain: the link between slavery and the British national identity

Woodcut illustration of slave labour on a sugar plantation

Success, sugar and slaves: the uncomfortable story of slaveholder Simon Taylor

Olaudah Equiano (Photo by Getty)

General Early Modern

Who was Olaudah Equiano – and why was his story of slavery so important?

An 1826 illustration from 'The Black Man's Lament

David Olusoga: “Thousands of Britons opposed abolition – because they owned slaves”

Wrecked buildings in Los Angeles' South Central district following 1992 riots

The 1992 LA riots

Traditional Kente cloth from Ghana (Photo by Dreamstime)

A new view of Africa’s past

Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944

Editor’s pick 9 top articles from the BBC World Histories archive to read right now

Emma Dabiri in conversation about her book 'Don't Touch My Hair'

“Afro-textured hair had no stigma before the dehumanisation of black people that emerged from slavery”: Emma Dabiri discusses the changing perceptions of Afro-textured hair

James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare and America. (Images by Dreamstime)

How William Shakespeare shaped America