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How FDR transformed the US presidency . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

King James VII and II depicted while in exile in France.

What were the 1707 Acts of Union and what did they achieve?

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The long fight over abortion rights in the United States

Postal workers at a rally outside the houses of parliament, December 2022 and (right) ambulance staff march through London, 1979

Britain’s century of strikes: the history behind today’s industrial action

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How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America

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Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire

The British Commonwealth of Nations - Together Poster (Photo by Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why we should remember… The Statute of Westminster

Mikhail Gorbachev as seen in a 1995 portrait. His leadership saw the Soviet Union undergo dramatic reform, leading to its dissolution in 1991 (Photo by Dana Gluckstein / mptvimages / eyevine)

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a Cold War hero or a failed idealist: the historians’ verdict

Argentinian midfielder Mario Kempes celebrates a goal in the 1978 football World Cup final between hosts Argentina and Netherlands

Sportswashing: a historical perspective on a current trend

Tony Blair (Bertie Carvel) and Cherie Blair (Lydia Leonard) in 'The Crown'

The Crown S5 E10 real history: the HMY Britannia‘s final voyage, and a political landslide

A German soldier captured during the battle of Kursk, July–August 1943. Germany’s last major offensive on the eastern front ended in crushing defeat (Photo by STF/AFP/ GettyImages)

Second World War

Bitter end: Hitler’s downfall and the end of the war and the Third Reich

Former British Prime Minister John Major (left) and Johnny Lee Miller as John Major in The Crown

John Major: a brief guide to Britain’s prime minister in the 1990s

President Reagan laughs following a joke by Queen Elizabeth, who commented on the lousy California weather she had experienced since her arrival to the States. The British Queen is delivering a brief address during a state dinner held at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. (Picture by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth’s relationships with US presidents