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Coloured engraving of Malintzin

General Early Modern

15 minutes of fameCaroline Dodds Pennock chooses Malintzin

Emperor Moctezuma II, ruler of the Aztec Empire at the height of its power. His reign oversaw a flourishing capital at Tenochtitlan and an expansive tribute system, but it ended abruptly with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in 1519.

Tudor

Did Aztec civilisation really ‘collapse’? The reality isn’t as simple as you might think

A 19th-century portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb, Anglo-Irish aristocrat, novelist and lover of Lord Byron, by English painter Thomas Phillips (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Lady Caroline Lamb: Antonia Fraser on a rule-breaking aristocrat. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval

Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

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Caroline Dodds Pennock“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast), c1880. Although Britain outlawed slavery in 1833 and it was abolished in the USA after the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War in 1865, the transatlantic trade in African slaves continued. The main market for the slaves was Brazil, where slavery was not abolished until 1888. (Colorised black and white print). Artist Unknown.. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

General History

Black British historySlavery's painful legacy

Meeting in Tenochtitlan between Hernan Cortes

Tudor

Two worlds collide: Spanish conquistadors and Aztecs

A portrait of Caroline of Ansbach

Georgian

Caroline of Ansbach: why George II's remarkable queen was the first iron lady of British politics

Two elderly women stand outdoors beside a small dog, both wearing long black riding habits and tall black top hats. One faces slightly toward her companion while the other looks ahead. The image is a nineteenth-century illustration of Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, known as the Ladies of Llangollen.

Georgian

Friends or lovers? Either way, the Ladies of Llangollen fascinated Georgian society

Medieval

The real Aztecs: brutal, bloodthirsty... and caring?