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The US 'voodoo' scare: why 19th-century racists spread fake news about Haiti.

A painting of two men, dressed in colourful robes, hug each other. One man is standing on top of a lamb, the other on a lion

Michael Wood on the rise and fall of Asian empires.

Fake news and the Dreyfus affair: the media-fuelled scandal that divided France.

After Franco: Spain's miraculous transition to democracy.

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Who should decide the stories museums tell?.

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Michael Wood on China's immense suffering in the Second World War.

View of the White House, home to the US President

When was the White House built – and why is it white?

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5 things you (probably) didn't know about the Tudors.

LEFT TO RIGHT: US president William McKinley is shot in 1901; John F Kennedy in Dallas, moments before his murder in 1963; the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981.

"Violence and American politics have gone hand in hand right from the beginning": a history of political violence

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Why you should avoid hair-pulling, and cannibalism, at royal banquets.

Soviet dissidents who challenged the Kremlin

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Senkichi Awaya: the lost mayor of Hiroshima.

A black and white photograph shows a group of Japanese military men on a train, while some young women prepare to get on the carriage. A young woman looks back over her shoulder

Kavita Puri on VJ Day: "We don't talk about the war in Asia – which was a messy, complicated conflict".

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Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "A UK museum that tells the long, rich history of migration is long overdue".

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Jonathan Healey: “A connection was made between the rarefied world of the royal court and the politics of the street”.

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Michael Wood on lessons on good government from medieval Siena.

A multicoloured photo collage, including an Indian soldier in WW1 military uniform, a woman dressed in dark jacket, cap and tie

"There's little understanding of the shared history of Britain and the subcontinent" | South Asian Heritage Month.

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The Srebrenica massacre: the worst atrocity committed on European soil since the Second World War.

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Suing for equality: how Sarah Mae Flemming began the legal fight against segregation.

Episode 2Was it possible to be neutral in World War One?.

A historical reenactor, dressed as a member of the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War, takes a selfie with a phone. He is standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC; a Stars and Stripes flag is to his right.

What is Juneteenth, and why is it celebrated? A historian explains the significance of the holiday today.

"These women transformed his understanding of the world": making Malcolm X.

"If you represent Pinochet in this case, I will divorce you”: the sensational trial of the Chilean dictator.

What caused the Irish Famine?.

The unification of Italy: everything you wanted to know.

How the English took Manhattan.

A man on a ladder brushes over vintage images of household goods and cars

Trump's tariffs: “They are dramatic only if you have a short historical memory”

The assassination of Julius Caesar on the 'Ides of March'.

Q&AWhy do we need to beware the Ides of March?

Winston Churchill with his wife Clementine, 1941 (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

Winston Churchill: is he still the greatest Briton in history?.

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