Bethwell Ogot (1929-2025) was a Kenyan historian who studied in Britain and who was widely admired...
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Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
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Moral and Historical Confusion at the BBC: the 2025 Reith...
The recent 2025 BBC Reith Lectures were given by a Dutch historian, Rutger Bregman, who called for...
School History Today
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Olusoga’s ‘Empire’
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History Reclaimed: December 2025 Newsletter
This Christmas 2025 newsletter examines British history disinformation, from BBC bias and imperial...
The Conversion of a Slave Trader: John Newton’s friendship with...
The purchase of a painting led Richard Longfoot to research the crucial role of Captain Alexander...
It’s Britain’s abolitionism, not its slave trading past, that is...
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David Olusoga’s version of Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency
David Olusoga's account of the 'Mau Mau Emergency' in Kenya in the 1950s in his new BBC series...
