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Neil Oliver. Television presenter and author Neil Oliver at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2019 (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

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Ancient wisdom with Neil Oliver

An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

David Olusoga "Black history affects all of us – it is British history"

Afua Hirsh with her ‘Enslaved’ co-presenters Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel L Jackson

Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

BBC History Revealed issue 88, November 2020, on sale from 1 October

November 2020 issue of BBC History Revealed out now!

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November 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

Elizabeth I knights Francis Drake on his ship Golden Hind after his round-the-world voyage. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How did Elizabeth I feel about being queen in a ‘man’s world’? | Tracy Borman explains

Simon Schama photographed in Hauteville House, Guernsey (Photo by Oxford Films, Photographer Eddie Knox)

Simon Schama on the Romantics

Half-sisters and daughters of Henry VIII: Mary Tudor (left) and Elizabeth I, who both reigned as queen of England. (Photos by Getty Images)

Did Elizabeth I and her half-sister, Mary Tudor, have a good relationship? Historian Tracy Borman explains

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, during their first visit to England after the Duke's abdication, September 1939. (Photo by Getty Images)

Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson and the Abdication crisis

Pompeii,Italy

What was life like in ancient Pompeii? Mary Beard shares an A-Z guide

Dan Jones by the River Medway at Rochester in Kent. Jones is the presenter of 'Walking Britain’s Roman Roads', which airs on 1 July 2020 at 9pm on 5Select.

Exploring Britain’s Roman roads with historian Dan Jones

Historians have chosen their favourite historical novels.

9 of the best historical novels – as chosen by expert historians

Michael Wood explores the shifting meaning of statues in society. (Illustration by Femke de Jong for BBC History Magazine)

Michael Wood "These ‘history wars’ over statues are really about something bigger: about different views of the past, and who controls it"

David Olusoga in the Bristol house featuring in series 3 of A House Through Time (Photo by BBC–Twenty Twenty Productions–Mark Bourdillon)

David Olusoga on A House Through Time

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