Politics

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Pod Henrietta Harrison WL

Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Napoleon of Fleet Street . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image of Empress Matilda

What if… Empress Matilda had defeated King Stephen?

Benito Mussolini

Second World War

Mussolini’s willing followers? The Italians devoted to Fascism and the duce

Mussolini salutes in front of the statue of the Roman emperor Nerva, in the 1930s

How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

General History

Quiz British prime ministers

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Russia’s national past: unpicking history from propaganda . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

From Walpole to Truss Lessons from the 300-year history of the British prime minister

A 1773 allegorical engraving of the three powers partitioning Poland

Why we should remember… the first Partition of Poland

East German leader Willi Stoph greets West German chancellor Willy Brandt at Erfurt. (Getty images)

Cold War summits: how USA & USSR leaders worked to end the conflict

National Woman’s Party activists sew a star onto their ‘ratification flag'

Why we should remember… The 19th amendment

Second World War allies Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (left to right) at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. East and west would soon become bitter rivals, however

The Cold War: 9 key questions

George C Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which pledged billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn Europe

What was the Marshall Plan?

Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative party

Behind the news Why PMs get the push

Richard Nixon at the White House with his family following his resignation as president, 9 August 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Richard Nixon’s final address: the day the president departed the White House