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Cleopatra: unpicking myth from reality. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Female activism: 10 remarkable protests from around the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Cold War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Daily life in ancient Egypt: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Rorke's Drift: a stand still clad in the "myths of empire". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorians and war: which conflicts were fought during the Victorian era?

Ethiopia 1935: The real history behind The Shadow King. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Looking for Egypt’s lost tombs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black British historyBritain's black trailblazers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 17th-century expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain: what happened?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The missing Tudors: black people in 16th-century England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Olusoga"Black history affects all of us – it is British history". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

General ancient history

Your guide to...the Phoenicians

The African who transformed Anglo-Saxon England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Guidebook to the Ancient Egyptian afterlife

The mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld: a Cold War killing?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Afua Hirsch: "The prejudice still surrounding Africa is absolutely rooted in a racist past". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Timeline: the evolution of ancient empires. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Your guide to...the Punic Wars

Africa’s cultural liberation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General ancient history

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: what were they, and what happened to them?

A sweeping history of magic – from witchcraft to shamanism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Africa’s medieval golden age

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #15: What's lurking in the background of medieval maps? And what did medieval people really know about the wider world?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cleopatra: what is the real legacy of the last pharaoh?

How significant was the Suez Crisis?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Freedom fighters: the enslaved people who fought for the abolition of slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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