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Marshal Foch and his accompaniment leaving Compiègne in order to inform the French government in Paris about the Armistice agreement with Germany. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

First World War

Where was the Armistice signed?

January 1973: Londoners reading the newspapers headlining Britain's entry into the Common Market.

When did the UK join the European Economic Community (EEC) and why?

Setting a trap: East German soldiers construct the Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961. The barrier was an attempt to stop the flood of Germans fleeing from east to west – yet, as scores of audacious escape bids attest, it didn't entirely succeed. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Escape from East Berlin: an audacious bid to tunnel under the Berlin Wall

Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up

Presidents under pressure: the resignation of Richard Nixon and the impeachment case against Trump

East Germans crowd around and on the Berlin Wall the day after the gates opened for free movement in 1989

What happened after the fall of the Berlin Wall?

The Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, on display at the British Museum. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

8 facts about the Elgin Marbles

Guy Fawkes was a conspirator in the gunpowder plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament, c1606. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot: everything you need to know

Fireworks on Guy Fawkes Day c1800

A very short history of bonfire night

An illustration of the Gunpowder Plot principal conspirators, copied from a rare print published at the time (5 November 1605). (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images).

Bonfire Night: a 400-year-old political hot potato

The Parnethon, Athens

How to build a democracy (Athenian-style)

King John out hunting

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about medieval elections

Rotten boroughs cartoon

9 general election curiosities through history

Britons. Join Your Country's Army! (Photo by Alfred Leete/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

First World War

The death of Kitchener: a World War One mystery

A depiction of a 13th-century parliament, sitting under Edward I. The Good Parliament of 1376, during the reign of Edward III, sowed the seeds for discontent that was to come.

The Good Parliament of 1376: Crown v Commons

1st May 1975: Three documents, for and against, published for the referendum on the Common Market

Britain decides: the first European referendum