Politics

A suffragette march

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Suffragettes, but were afraid to ask

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

Your guide to… the Watergate scandal

Elizabeth I knights Francis Drake on his ship Golden Hind after his round-the-world voyage. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How did Elizabeth I feel about being queen in a ‘man’s world’? | Tracy Borman explains

Illustration by Joey Guidone

The big question: has terrorism ever achieved its aims?

William Cecil, also known as Lord Burghley, with Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Your guide to William Cecil, chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I

Ernest Bevin

Second World War

Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior

Roman republic

Your guide to the Roman Republic

President Donald Trump

A brief history of election “rigging” in the United States

Male and female militia fighters on the march at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, July 1936. (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Spanish Civil War, but were afraid to ask

The Parnethon, Athens

How to build a democracy (Athenian-style)

Athenian red-figure cup showing a seated man with a naked boy in the inside tondo, 470 BC

What was pederasty in ancient Greece?

Fasil Ghebbi, a 17th-century fortress city in Gondar, Ethiopia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Peter Frankopan on global history in 2020

Brothers in arms Louis IX on his way to the Seventh Crusade, 1248. The French king kept his three brothers onside – preventing any potential family infighting – by providing them with huge lordships. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Medieval dynasties: how to stay on the throne

Brothers in arms Louis IX on his way to the Seventh Crusade, 1248. The French king kept his three brothers onside – preventing any potential family infighting – by providing them with huge lordships. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Bonds of blood: survival secrets of medieval royal families

Egyptian ships sunk at the entrance of the Suez Canal at Port Said

Your guide to... the Suez Crisis