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Egyptologist Aidan Dodson explores the life, death and afterlife of ancient Egypt’s sun queen. (Image by Getty Images)

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

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Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley responds to listener questions about everyday life in ancient Egypt, from governance to dental care and cat mummies. (Image by Getty Images)

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

Alphonse de Neuville's 1880 painting 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift'. The battle was to become a

The battle of Rorke’s Drift: a stand still clad in the “myths of empire”

Illustration of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean War

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

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Maaza Mengiste on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

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

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Chris Naunton at BBC History Weekend

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

Claudia Jones at the Brixton offices of 'The West Indian Gazette'

Black British history Britain's black trailblazers

A painting of 1616 depicts the Moriscos boarding ships to sail from the port of Valencia

The 17th-century expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain: what happened?

Portrait of an African man, c1530 . (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The missing Tudors: black people in 16th-century England

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An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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

Afua Hirsh with her ‘Enslaved’ co-presenters Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel L Jackson

Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

Limestone relief depicting a a procession of courtiers paying homage to the Ahiram, king of the Phoenician city of Byblos

General ancient history

Your guide to... the Phoenicians

Michael Wood reveals how Hadrian, a little-known “man of Africa”, helped lay the foundations of English culture

The African who transformed Anglo-Saxon England

A reconstruction of an extract from the Book of the Dead depicting an embalming scene. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library via Getty Images)

Guidebook to the Ancient Egyptian afterlife

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Dag Hammarskjöld

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