Olivette Otele, Professor of History and Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society, answers key questions about the slave trade. From its origins to its abolishment.
Mark Williams, senior lecturer in Early Modern history at Cardiff University, tackles the big questions about the East India Company.
Orlando Figes talks to Dan about social and technological developments and their links with cultural changes back in the 19th century.
The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across into Arabia and the north coast of Africa, was home to one of the most extraordinary empires in history: the Ottoman Empire. Along its routes flowed ideas, goods, disease and death. In existence for 600 years, it also saw the swe...
