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LEFT TO RIGHT: US president William McKinley is shot in 1901; John F Kennedy in Dallas, moments before his murder in 1963; the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981.

"Violence and American politics have gone hand in hand right from the beginning": a history of political violence

Crime fiction history: everything you wanted to know

Britain and the Caribbean: from slavery to Black Lives Matter

Tariffs and trade wars: a history of economic warfare

A man on a ladder brushes over vintage images of household goods and cars

Trump's tariffs: “They are dramatic only if you have a short historical memory”

The 'Blue People' of Kentucky

Blue Fugates: the rare blood disorder that turned the ‘Blue People of Kentucky’ blue

Greenland, forest fires and presidential power: history behind the headlines

British TV history: everything you wanted to know

A portrait of King John of England

9 of the worst monarchs in history

An 1872 illustration from the weekly newspaper Days’ Doings shows a shoplifter being apprehended (Photo by Look and Learn/Rosenberg Collection/Bridgeman Images)

Lady swindlers: 6 women who turned to lives of crime and became queens of the underworld

Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week

How did the US get so many guns?

Chinese workers tend a tea plantation in a mid-19th-century lithograph. Importing leaves from China was expensive – until Scottish botanist Robert Fortune introduced the plants to India. (Photo by Getty Images)

Eastern promises: the long and troubled history of Britain's relations with China

Nicola Fox and Marie Curie

My history heroNicola Fox chooses Marie Curie

The UK's far right movement: history behind the headlines

Hidden labs, sex gardens & torture attics: secrets of British royal palaces

The Crystal Palace burns down in December 1936

Q&AThe Crystal Palace was constructed of iron and glass – so how and why did it burn down?

Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown, Mass

What was the Chappaquiddick incident?

Stealing the Mona Lisa

Has imperial history become too politicised?

Assassinations that shaped US history

Is democracy doomed? History behind the headlines

Servants: everything you wanted to know

The England football team badge, showing three lions on a field of ten Tudor roses

Q&AWhy are there three lions on the shirts of the English football team?

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From the bitter battle of 1832 to the poll that cemented the two-party system: 7 elections that rocked Britain

British general elections: everything you wanted to know

A 21st-century Holocaust trial

Suffragettes armed with materials to chain themselves to railings

Suffragettes history facts: 10 things you might not know about the Votes for Women campaigners

Arthur Hughes as Matthew Shardlake in Disney+ drama Shardlake

Watch thisThe best historical movies and TV series streaming now

Ludwig van Beethoven (Photo by Lebrecht Music & Arts/Alamy)

How Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has been an ode to peace around the world