Northern Ireland

British prime minister Tony Blair (right), US Senator George Mitchell (centre) and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern smiling on 10 April 1998 after signing the Good Friday Agreement – an historic agreement for peace in Northern Ireland. (Photo by Dan Chung/AFP/Getty Images)

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement

A St Patrick's Day Parade in America, Union Square, 1870s, from a colour lithograph.

The history of St Patrick’s Day

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The big question: Has terrorism ever achieved its aims?

Harland & Wolff shipworkers

The story of the Titanic

From The Library

A silhouette of troops of the 1st Australian Division during the First World War.

First World War

First World War quiz

Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

First World War

Shot at dawn: the First World War soldiers executed for desertion and cowardice

Author Linda Colley.

Acts of union and disunion

From The Library

"Britain’s handling of the Malayan Emergency has often been cited as a textbook example of how an army should win over the ‘hearts and minds’ of civilians," says Michael Burleigh. (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Britain’s brutal battles for hearts and minds

From The Library

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Andrew Jackson Cottage and US Ranger Centre, County Antrim

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The Plantation of Ulster: The British Colonisation of the North of Ireland in the 17th Century

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St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh

A hand-coloured lithograph showing St Patrick, national apostle of Ireland. (VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Britain’s medieval identity crisis

Holly leaf and berry.

Christmas quiz 2011

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Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century