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The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate?

Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920
20th Century

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

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The Interregnum: Britain’s republican decade

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Eurovision history: from the first competition to the story behind voting blocs

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Q&A How old is the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland?

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20th Century

Your guide to… the Watergate scandal

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Genocide: what can we learn from history?

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Poland and Ukraine’s shared history: how dreams of nationhood endure

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Benjamin Franklin: from British patriot to American hero

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20th Century

Is the future of Nato under threat?

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Peter Caddick-Adams on the history of neutrality “As many nations found to their cost in the 20th century, declaring neutrality and it being respected are two different matters”

Four flapper women line up along a wall and chug bottles of liquor in the 1920s.
20th Century

Flappers, sanitary pads and public drinking: was the 1920s a time of increased liberation for women?

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