Politics

This caricature of those meetings depicts proceedings turning to chaos, thanks to the arrival of Napoleon – freshly escaped from his exile on Elba before 'the cake' (Europe) has even been cut

Europe after Napoleon: what the Congress of Vienna meant for the coalition powers

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Clement Attlee: Labour’s postwar leader

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. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

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Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 3: Clement Attlee

British troops guard a wall during the Irish War of Independence, which bears a nationalist message

The Irish Republican Army: a brief guide

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Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 2: Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin in the study at Chequers, the PM's official country residence, c1925

Stanley Baldwin: Britain’s greatest peacetime prime minister?

Linda Colley explores how written constitutions, together with warfare, forged the modern world. (Image by Getty Images)

How constitutions changed the world

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Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 1: Robert Walpole

A broker looks at his screens at Frankfurt's stock exchange on 15 September 2008. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty Images)

The 2008 financial crisis explained

No 10 Downing Street has been home to dozens of prime ministers (and numerous cats) since the iconic residence was first offered to Sir Robert Walpole

23 things you (probably) didn’t know about No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Britain’s prime ministers

Robert Walpole, the first prime minister of Great Britain

Robert Walpole: Britain’s first prime minister

Jayaben Desai salutes fellow pickets at the Grunwick film processing factory in 1977

The Grunwick protests: remembering the 1970s strike for migrant workers’ rights

Spy plane photos revealed that missile bases were being built on Cuba, prompting the crisis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What if... The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated?

1871: Otto von Bismarck reads the Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles following Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Germany’s pre-Nazi history: rethinking the Second Reich