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

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The LibraryKarl Marx: the godfather of revolution.

Benjamin Tillett, organiser of the Docker's Union and leader of the London Transport Worker's strike in 1911, addressing a rally of the strikers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The essay: Britain’s cautious revolutionaries.

Winston Churchill, 1941. (Photo by War Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

History heroBarbara Taylor Bradford chooses Winston Churchill (1874–1965).

The Marshall Plan and the Cold War.

A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

Mahatma Gandhi in Britain

Gandhi in Britain

Chatsworth House

History explorer: Politics and power in Georgian Britain.

Winston Churchill leaves a cabinet meeting

Churchill’s days of destiny.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The red dawn: the October Revolution.

The Munich Conference.

The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?.

What are Henry VIII powers?

The White House, Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

QuizHow much do you know about US presidents?.

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.