Politics

Prime minister Ramsay MacDonald (left) and chancellor Philip Snowden (right) at 10 Downing Street in 1929, two years before they formed a controversial National Government (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Alleged coups and government traitors: conspiracy theories in 20th-century British politics

Bishops tumble, with “popish” paraphernalia falling from their pockets, in a woodcut from a 1641 Puritan pamphlet titled 'A Decade of Grievances' (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

How people power fuelled England’s century of chaos

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Why revolution engulfed 19th-century Europe . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

This illustration from a Women’s Social and Political Union poster condemns the force-feeding of suffragettes in 1910. Many women were subjected to this brutal procedure between 1909 and August 1914. (Museum of London)

Cat and mouse Force feeding the suffragettes

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Second World War

WW2 the big questions: the ‘Big Three’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Tony Blair, US Senator George Mitchell and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement

A copy of the Declaration of Arbroath is held by the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh – the actual letter sent to Pope John XXII is lost (Photo by M.Brodie / Alamy Stock Photo)

The Declaration of Arbroath: your guide to Scotland’s historic document

Fires burn in Baghdad following an attack on the Iraqi capital, March 2003. The motives for the war continue to spark controversy (Photo by Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

“The early 2000s was a strange era of fear and terror”: remembering the Iraq War 20 years on

Engraving depicting the assassination of Julius Caesar

Q&A Why do we need to beware the Ides of March?

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Women's history podcast episodes

King Alfonso XIII of Spain, Charles I of England, Puyi of China and Lydia Liliuokalani of Hawaii

General History

The kingdom is dead What causes monarchies to fail?

A century since women's suffrage. (Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for BBC History Magazine)

Women’s rights in the 20th century: what happened after the vote was won?

Fascist leaders pictured a few days before the March on Rome, October 1922. Benito Mussolini (centre) would soon be the most powerful man in Italy (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images)

Mussolini's March on Rome How Italy became the first fascist state

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A secret Nazi plot to kill the ‘Big Three’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.