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Episode 4 The mystery of Nefertiti . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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15 minutes of fame Joyce Tyldesley chooses Queen Tiye

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Roger II of Sicily, depicted in an Arabic-style image in the Palatine Chapel of the Norman Palace in Palermo

Normans in Africa The 12th-century attempt to forge a north-African Norman kingdom . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1 Unearthing the boy king’s lost tomb . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Norman kings of Africa . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Queen Tiye Overshadowed ancient Egyptian royal . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alice Kinloch Pan-African activist . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Training of young Rwandan Hutu on the road to Kigali, 27 June 1994

Genocide: what can we learn from history? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ras Prince Monolulu entertains the crowds at Aintree racecourse, 1931 (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Ras Prince Monolulu: the horse-race tipster who transformed himself into an Abyssinian prince . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The final instalment in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1950–1999. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1956: The shock of Suez . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill (left) with Charles de Gaulle, c1944. The British prime minister encouraged Vichy’s colonies to rally to the Free French leader. (Getty Images)

Operation Ironclad: the WW2 battle for Madagascar

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Susan Williams discusses the United States’ covert programme to undermine the leaders of newly independent African nations in the 1950s and 1960s. (Image by Getty Images)

The CIA’s secret African missions . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The forgotten battles of the Zulu War

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia

Haile Selassie, last emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa