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Culture

The history of Africa: why we need to look much deeper than slavery and colonisation.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo: the Renaissance polymath who transformed Western art

Elizabethan London: a multicultural melting pot.

An engraving of John Milton in 1670. By that time he’d been blind for nearly two decades – but continued to express strong views on religion and the monarchy in his writing (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Long road to paradise: the life of John Milton and how he created his masterpiece, Paradise Lost.

William Dalrymple (Photo by David Hartley/Shutterstock)

“Like ancient Greece, India is one of the seedbeds of civilisation” | William Dalrymple on putting India back at the centre of global history.

Victorian schools: everything you wanted to know.

Visitors promenade alongside a lake with Surrey Zoological Gardens in the background, 1844 (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Victorian zoosAnimal attraction in the 19th century.

Frozen Charlotte dolls: the Victorian Barbie

Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'.

John Milton: life of the week.

A hidden history of black civil rights

Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week.

Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft: the firebrand feminist thinker with a rule-breaking life

Chinese workers tend a tea plantation in a mid-19th-century lithograph. Importing leaves from China was expensive – until Scottish botanist Robert Fortune introduced the plants to India. (Photo by Getty Images)

Eastern promises: the long and troubled history of Britain's relations with China.

Viking trade, Titanic and Olympic rings: history behind the headlines.

How ancient India transformed the world.

Women at Kappa Kappa Gamma and Gamma Phi Beta Houses of University of California at Los Angeles in 1952

General History

What is Greek life?

Norse god of war and All-father, Odin, next to Germanic princess Brunhild

General History

Fierce and furious: who are the most powerful gods of war throughout world history?

Tartan: everything you wanted to know.

Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author.

Stealing the Mona Lisa.

The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know.

Francis Drake: life of the week.

Our long obsession with the end of the world.

The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know.

History's greatest cities: Mexico City.

A Painting of The Grand Canal in Venice

General Early Modern

Q&AThe Grand Tour: a rite of passage for Europe’s elite

Video podcastAncient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know.

Smash hits: 17th-century style.

Shakespeare, depicted in a later image based on a contemporary portrait

Race, love & money: 8 Shakespeare plays that reveal the past.