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George Washington Carver in a laboratory

History heroGillian Burke chooses George Washington Carver (c1864–1943). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat: what happened next?

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

Black British historyBritain's black trailblazers

Stephen Bourne on Black soldiers in WW2

Black Britons in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enslaved women & resistance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christian Frederick Cole: England’s first black barrister

Famous Victorians: Emily Bronte and Isambard Kingdom Brunel

7 famous Victorians: from Brontë to Brunel

An Atlantic slave war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black radical: William Monroe Trotter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Actor Stephanie Levi-John as Lina in 'The Spanish Princess'

Catalina: the real history of The Spanish Princess favourite

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

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

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

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.

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?

The African who transformed Anglo-Saxon England

François-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture

Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Isabel Wilkerson on caste in America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Seacole as seen in a contemporary photo. Although she became famous for her nursing work in the Crimean War, her story subsequently became largely forgotten. (Photo by Alamy)

History heroBernardine Evaristo chooses Mary Seacole (1805–1881). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Afua Hirsch with the Samburu people, Kenya

Africa’s cultural liberation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The American Civil War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The magnificent ruins of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani

Africa’s medieval golden age

National guardsmen confront confront citizens during Chicago's race riots

Red summer of 1919: the history of Chicago's race riots

American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, c 1866. (Photo by Shutterstock)

African American abolitionists in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paul Stephenson and Guy Bailey

The great British civil rights scandal: the Bristol bus boycott

Freedom fighters: the enslaved people who fought for the abolition of slavery

The ship ‘Jesus of Lübeck’ was used in John Hawkins’ infamous early slaving voyages, some of which were sponsored by Elizabeth I. (Image by Alamy)

Were there slaves in Elizabethan England?

English admiral Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), circa 1585. (Photo by Getty Images)

Francis Drake: slave trader. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.