Decolonisation

José de San Martín and his forces liberated Peru and proclaimed its independence from Spain on 28 July 1821. 

What role did Simon Bolivar play in the history of Latin America's independence from Spain?

The intriguing death of an Indian holy man in 1985 suggested that he was none other than Subhas Chandra Bose, the revolutionary and nationalist who, it is officially claimed, died in an air crash in 1945. The truth, however, is harder to find, as Hugh Purcell discovers.

Football became a potent expression of Algeria’s struggle for independence, never more so than during the dramatic events that preceded the 1958 World Cup, as Martin Evans explains.

In 1959 Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba after a masterly campaign of guerrilla warfare. Drawing on this success, Castro and his followers, including Che Guevara, sought to spread their revolution, as Clive Foss explains.

Richard Cavendish remembers how a former-British colony gained a long-serving leader.

The independent Federation of Malaya came into being on August 31st, 1957.

This West African state was a focus of the slave trade for centuries, and the first African colony to win independence, exactly fifty years ago. Graham Gendall Norton finds lots of history to explore.

Jonathan Colman provides an overview of modern British Imperial History, introducing the key events and issues that students need to understand.

Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her youthful patriotism and vigorous activism.