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Untold story of a slave rebellion wins the 2021 Cundill History Prize

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Sathnam Sanghera Britain's Imperial Legacy: “It was painful to realise how my education had colonised me”

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Christmas 2021 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

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Greg Jenner talks about his latest book, Ask A Historian, which tackles 50 burning questions that people have about the past. (Image by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

What would you ask a historian?

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Courage under fire: the story of a WW2 tank regiment

Public historians Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb explore how we should make sense of studying the past in 2021

History in 2021, with Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb

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Anne of Denmark: a killer queen?

From the eruption of Vesuvius to Chernobyl and Covid-19, Niall Ferguson charts how disasters have changed the course of history

What can we learn from past catastrophes?

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Wolfson History Prize 2021 special

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A brief history of changing hairstyles

To mark HistoryExtra’s 1,000th episode, Dan Jones takes us on a whistlestop tour through the last millennium of British history. (Image by Steve Sayers)

Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history

Author and biographer Max Adams

Max Adams Britain in the centuries after the Romans: “You can think of this era as a black hole into which our history tumbles”

Volunteers shovel sand in Fulham in 1941, filling bags used to protect windows from bomb blasts. Our clichés of the Blitz don’t tell the whole story, writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Mary Evans)

Second World War

Lucy Worsley on Blitz Spirit: the courageous stories of six Londoners