Black history

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Black British history and Charles I’s children

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Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare’s black Othello

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Crusade logistics and the battle over the slave trade

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First World War

The Pacific War and First World War black soldiers

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Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners

Malcolm X chats with Eric Abrahams – the Oxford Union president who vowed to “fill the room with blacks” – before giving his famous address on 3 December 1964. (Getty)

Malcolm X in Oxford: Black power amid dreaming spires

Left to right: David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King, Jr. and Carmen Ejogo plays Coretta Scott King in SELMA, from Paramount Pictures and Pathé.

“He was so much more than that speech”: David Oyelowo on playing Martin Luther King in upcoming blockbuster Selma

Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain

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African history special

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Historian at the Movies: 12 Years a Slave reviewed

Idris Elba (Nelson Mandela) in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed

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Interactive map ‘contradicts slave uprising theories’

Photograph showing civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr delivering his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech

“I Have A Dream”: the speech that America couldn’t ignore

18th-century slave uprising

The three Kenyans who were tortured by British forces in the 1950s are joined by supporters at a demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice. (BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)

History on trial