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The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain's first black sports star

A photograph of the Tower of London, from the river

Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 8: A conclusion (of sorts). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 7: Survival theories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 6: The other suspects. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 5: Circumstantial evidence and strange behaviour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 4: Examining the evidence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 3: The prime suspect. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 2: The timeline. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 1: The case. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting of Pope Callixtus II, the first Borgia pope, though it would be his nephew Rodrigo (later Pope Alexander VI) who would earn great infamy

Your guide to...the Borgias

The rise and fall of the Sikh empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Chris Harding answers questions on the history of Japan

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

Portrait of Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon: Spain’s Virgin queen?

Arnhem: the Battle for the Bridges, 1944. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Author Kate Summerscale (Photo by Fran Monks)

A 1930s ghost hunt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life in bondage Formerly enslaved African-Americans sit for a photograph in Virginia, c1850. At that time, 4 million people were still enslaved across the US, as debates around abolition raged on both sides of the Atlantic (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

The black abolitionists who shocked Victorian Britain

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

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

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

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

The ‘Pilgrims’ stride onto American soil in 1620 after crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, as shown in a 20th-century painting. The colony that they established was – initially, at least – a genuinely enlightened place, writes James Evans. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Myth of the Mayflower: the voyage that made America?

Young girl putting garland around Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Getty Images)

History heroFergal Keane chooses Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson at her home in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Alamy)

Isabel Wilkerson: “Caste is like the wind. You may not be able to see it, but it’s a quietly destructive force”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)

How Covid-19 is forcing universities to change

If you’re interested in learning about history at home, there are plenty of short courses available online on a variety of topics. (Photo by Getty Images)

How to become a history student at home

Hiring more black academics “to teach all sorts of histories” is key to instigating real change in university history education, lecturer Charlotte Lydia Riley argues. (Photo by Shutterstock)

How can we improve diversity within history education?

A watermill, with fish nets and eel traps visible beneath the waters of the mill leat Luttrell Psalter. England, c 1325-1335. (Photo by Alamy)

Medieval eels and Englishness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, also known as Rasputin

Rasputin: the 'mad monk' who became a friend to the Romanovs