Politics

A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois

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

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

The Great Seal of the Commonwealth of England

The Interregnum: Britain’s republican decade

Netta holds the Eurovision trophy aloft while singing the winning song for Israel at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest grand final

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

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Pod Dean Vuletic WL

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The coats of arms of the kingdoms of Scotland and France

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

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

Your guide to… the Watergate scandal

Training of young Rwandan Hutu on the road to Kigali, 27 June 1994

Genocide: what can we learn from history?

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General ancient history

Corruption in the ancient world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Polish coat of arms on red background

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

A cartoon published by Benjamin Franklin c1770 urging the colonies to unite and resist British rule. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Benjamin Franklin: from British patriot to American hero

United States and Nato flags fly above US Air Force fighter jets in Lithuania

Is the future of Nato under threat?

Peter Caddick-Adams

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.

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