If observing current affairs unfold over these past few years has taught us anything, it’s that history remains helplessly subjective, and that everything we know – or think we know – might just be wrong. This is why it is boom time for modern-day historians to rewrite what was once presumed common accepted knowledge, and to bring to bear upon their subjects not just greater clarity but different perspectives. History may well be that thing that lives in the past, but, as these highlights from 2025 show, it remains as thrillingly relevant as ever.

We Were There by Lanre Bakare

Spanning 40 years of Black influence on the nation, Bakare, a journalist with British/Nigerian heritage, explains how, even during times of civil unrest and rampant racism, the UK’s Black diaspora made an indelible

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