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Tournament between the Duke of Brittany and the Duke of Bourbon. (Photo by Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #7: what it meant to be ‘blue’ in the Middle Ages (and more killer rabbits)

People flee to boats on the River Thames to escape the Great Fire of London, September 1666.

Coffee, plague and the Great Fire: the pleasures and perils of living in Restoration London

Statue of Admiral Horatio Nelson in Trafalgar Square London

Should we judge historical figures by the morals of today?

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Frank Gillard pictured during a 1944 rehearsal for battle reporting

History hero Chris Mason chooses Frank Gillard (1908–98) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marble bust of Nero

Emperor Nero: the tyrant of Rome

(Photo by Michele Falzone via Getty Images)

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about ancient Egypt

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Michael Wood on statues "These ‘history wars’ over statues are really about something bigger: about different views of the past, and who controls it" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sam Willis and James Daybell. (Photo by David Hampton, Tudor rose by Alamy)

The unexpected Tudors . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From Nelson to Churchill: challenging British heroes with Afua Hirsch . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men operate a cotton gin in Dahomey, Mississippi, in 1898

7 key questions about the transatlantic slave trade – answered

An African man after being liberated from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, 1871. In all, more than 12 million captives were loaded onto Atlantic slavers’ vessels. (Pictures from History/Bridgeman Images)

A brief guide to the transatlantic slave trade

1774: A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?'. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Abolition in Britain: the link between slavery and the British national identity

Woodcut illustration of slave labour on a sugar plantation

Success, sugar and slaves: the uncomfortable story of slaveholder Simon Taylor

Olaudah Equiano (Photo by Getty)

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Who was Olaudah Equiano – and why was his story of slavery so important?

An 1826 illustration from 'The Black Man's Lament

David Olusoga "Thousands of Britons opposed abolition – because they owned slaves"