Social history

A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?', 1774. (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain and the slave trade

A police officer uses his baton on a protester in Glasgow, 1919

1919: Britain’s red summer

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King

Everything you ever wanted to know about the civil rights movement, but were afraid to ask

The death of Wat Tyler', 1859. Tyler was a leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England, which saw a group of rebels march on London to oppose the institution of a poll tax and demand economic and social reforms. He was killed by officers loyal to King Richard II during negotiations at Smithfield, London. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Your guide to the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

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Coffee, plague and the Great Fire: the pleasures and perils of living in Restoration London

The Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London: how the ferocious blaze of 1666 destroyed the capital

Statue of Admiral Horatio Nelson in Trafalgar Square London

Should we judge historical figures by the morals of today?

(Photo by Michele Falzone via Getty Images)

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about ancient Egypt

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"

Sam Willis and James Daybell. (Photo by David Hampton, Tudor rose by Alamy)

The unexpected Tudors

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From Nelson to Churchill: challenging British heroes with Afua Hirsch

1774: A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?'. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Abolition in Britain: the link between slavery and the British national identity

An 1826 illustration from 'The Black Man's Lament

David Olusoga: “Thousands of Britons opposed abolition – because they owned slaves”

Doctors tending to a patient, 14th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine

John Profumo in October 1962

Sex, lies and spies: the real history of the Profumo Affair