10 Downing Street, the residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Getty Images)

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China in World War Two.

Living through Partition.

George Warleggan. (Image credit: BBC/Mammoth Screen/Robert Viglasky)

The real history behind 'Poldark' series three: episode eight

Benito Mussolini with members of the Black shirt Legion

The thorns in Mussolini’s side: the anti-Fascists who opposed the Italian regime.

Snap election 2017: the historians’ verdict.

British Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher faces the press outside London's Europa Hotel following her victory in the leadership election, 20 February 1975. (Photo by Frank Barratt/Keystone/Getty Images)

Bolting to the ballot box: Snap elections through history

Britain’s road to democracy: slow and not always steady.

Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev looking disappointed frustrated

The 1986 Reykjavík Summit: when hopes for nuclear peace were dashed.

Government troops patrol a village during the Salvadoran Civil War

The end of El Salvador's civil war.

American president Franklin D Roosevelt

Second World War

Life of the Week: President Franklin D Roosevelt

Persuading the people: British propaganda in the Second World War.

Donald Trump’s unsurprising victory.

Donald Trump elected president: the historians’ verdict.

Q&AQ&A: Why is Portugal known as Britain’s oldest ally?

Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe.

Cold War summits.

Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

The LibraryBritain’s tearoom fascists.

A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square

Britain at war over Vietnam.

Anita Anand on Sophia Duleep Singh: goddaughter of Queen Victoria and prominent campaigner for women’s rights.

A Grand National Union Banner depicting president Abraham Lincoln and his running mate Andrew Johnson

Lincoln: The vote that saved America.

Rosedene Cottage

History explorer: The Chartist movement.

Diana Lynn, Bonzo the chimpanzee, and Ronald Reagan in a publicity photo for the 1951 film 'Bedtime for Bonzo'. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Ronald Reagan: 10 facts about the 40th president of the USA.

The Palace of Westminster

Q&AWhy do we call the British government ‘Whitehall’?

Journalist Ruth First, pictured right, at Anti-Apartheid Movement's freedom day rally in Trafalgar Square, London in 1965. Also pictured are actor Patrick Wymark (left) and Bishop Reeves (middle). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

My history hero: Ruth First (1925-82).

Daniele Manin proclaiming the Republic of Venice, 22 March 1848. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images)

1848: the year of revolutions.

Can Britain make nuclear power work this time around?.

John and Jackie Kennedy shaking hands with a crowd. Jackie continued to fight her husband's corner after his death, says Mark White. (Photo by Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Was JFK a good president?.

My History Hero: Franklin D Roosevelt (1882- 1945).

Books interview: the life and career of Benjamin Disraeli.

George G Meade, best known for defeating Confederate General Robert E Lee at the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. (Photo by Matthew Brady/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

Gettysburg: Lincoln’s greatest victory.