In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the ...

One of the truly unforgettable heroes of the British empire to whom I was introduced in the dying British colony of Nigeria was Cecil John Rhodes. There were several others but Rhodes stood out ...

A group of white Afrikaners was so opposed to majority Black rule when apartheid ended some three decades ago that they ...

The struggle of Africa and the Middle East against foreign oppression did not end with the fall of colonial empires. Instead, ...

Looking for ways to revise GCSE History? Try listening to these revision podcasts from Bitesize and BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds is where you can catch the latest music tracks, discover binge-worthy ...

Muslims learned homophobia from the British Empire, a leading historian has claimed. Diarmaid MacCulloch, emeritus professor at Oxford University, said a “horror of same-sex relationships” did ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Nations which get their independence by exercising a boundless nationalism often appear incapable of keeping their nationalism within boundaries. A case in point: the inchoate Republic of ...