South America

England Women's World Cup squad, Mexico, 1971

The 1971 Women’s World Cup: game changers?

Panorama of Machu Picchu

The last days of the Incas

Great Pyramid of Giza. Egypt. (Photo by Olgakostenko | Dreamstime.com)

10 of the most surprising numbers in history

In only two years, Hernán Cortés brought about the downfall of an efficient military civilisation through a combination of diplomacy, warfare, tactics, luck and sheer force of personality, writes Caroline Dodds. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Cortés and Montezuma: the conquering of Tenochtitlan

Premium

Max Adams. (Photo by Kona Macphee/Royal Literary Fund)

Remarkable women through history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Premium

A poverty-stricken migrant mother with three young children by Dorothea Lange, colourised by Marina Amaral. (Photo courtesy of Head of Zeus)

History in colour . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rags and riches: Enslaved people wash diamonds in Brazil, guarded by armed overseers, in a German engraving of 1828. Diamonds were discovered in Minas Gerais state in the late 17th century. (Picture by Alamy)

Brazil: a society shaped by slavery

Premium

Plaza de Armas in historic center of Cusco, Peru

Explore Cusco, Peru: Navel of the Incan world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brazil's oldest museum was gutted by a fire that destroyed most of the 20 million artefacts it housed. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

Brazil’s National Museum fire in context

Premium

Podcast Brian Glanville

The World Cup story . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Premium

Barry Cunliffe and David Abulafia

Living with the oceans . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Violeta_Parra_main-1f164dd

Violeta Parra and the birth of ‘New Song’

Premium

An indigenous Aymara woman selling herbs at La Paz's Witches' Market

Explore La Paz, Bolivia: the history of the turbulent city of peace . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

LCOZ_5066.CR2

Percy Fawcett and the lost city of Z: The history behind the film

Premium

Monument to Alexander von Humboldt

Books interview with Andrea Wulf: “Alexander von Humboldt is the forgotten father of environmentalism” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.