Central America

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The Grand Pyramid and plaza at the maya city of Tikal, in modern-day Guatemala

Tikal in 7 artefacts: explore the metropolis of the Maya . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The temple of Kukulcán at Chichén Itzá

General ancient history

Your guide to ancient Maya: from the writing system to the truth about ‘human sacrifice’

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An engraving of the pirate Henry Avery with his ship in a notorious raid that almost pushed England and India to war (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Hell on high water: the rise and fall of the golden age of piracy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

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

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Charles V of Spain depicted on a 16th-century gold coin

Kwasi Kwarteng "Wars are bloody expensive – so the only way nations can buy what they need is by printing their own money" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Spanish flee Tenochtitlan under fierce fire during La Noche Triste.

Why we should remember… When Spanish conquistadors were forced to flee the Aztec capital . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dancers perform in a Cinco de Mayo celebration

Q&A What does Cinco de Mayo commemorate?

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A depiction of the execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico by firing squad

The Siege of Querétaro: the downfall of Maximilian I of Mexico . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Edward Shawcross WL

Mexico’s ill-fated Austrian emperor . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry Avery stands on the shore holding a cutlass, while his ship Fancy battles the Ganj-i-Sawai in the background

The real pirates of the Caribbean: your guide to Nassau’s pirate republic

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Emma Dabiri “He dreamed a career that seemed impossible and made it a reality” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865

Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

John F Kennedy with US Army officials during the Cuban missile crisis

“We are eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked”: how the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated

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Lucy Bland discusses the childhood experiences of babies fathered by African-American GIs stationed in Britain during the Second World War. (Image from Getty Images)

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.