The First World War, the role of Versailles, The Second World War, the Atlantic Charter, and The Cold War

Sacha Hepburn: Department of History, Birkbeck, University of London.

Richard Drayton: Department of History, King's College, London.

Tim Livsey: Department of History, University of Northumbria

Olayinka Ajala: Department of Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University

The Berlin Conference 1884/85, the role of the maxim gun, and the way colonialism gradually became the order of the day, across the continent.

Richard Drayton: Department of History, King's College, London.

Miles Larmer: Department of History, University of Oxford.

Damilola Adebayo: Department of History, University of Cambridge.

The start of the trade, the role of Europeans and Africans in the slave trade, interesting stories and anecdotes, the end of the trade and its legacies.

Richard Drayton: Department of History, King''s College, London.

Padraic Scanlan: Department of History, University of Toronto.

Damilola Adebayo: Department of History, University of Cambridge.

The arrival of the Europeans, the exchange of ambassadors during this period, trade, iron works, small scale industrialization, the role of art in different societies, and the spread of religion.

Onyeka Nubia: Department of History, University of Nottingham.

Toby Green: Department of History, King's College, London.

Jimoh Ganiyu: Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos.

The importance of the state, balancing internal and external threats, tax collection, and the introduction of vast standing armies possessing firearms.

Toby Green: Department of History, King's College, London.

Hassoum Ceesay: Director General, National Centre for Arts and Culture, The Gambia.

Steven Pierce: Department of History, University of Manchester.