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

Politics

Two women from South America. Six centuries ago South American civilisations matched the west in some respects. (Getty Images)

The wonder of the west

Communist sport: Cold War copycats.

Burma: Why its military dictatorship still survives

The 19th-century political and social theorist Karl Marx; co-author (with Friedrich Engels) of The Communist Manifesto (1848). (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Karl Marx (1818–83).

A 'poster parade' of Ealing suffragettes advertising a meeting to be held on Ealing Common, 1 June 1912. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

9 historical sites linked to the suffragettes movement.

Dandy Gandhi to naked Fakir: the Indian leader's revolutionary dress code.

A portrait of Winston Churchill

'Ask your father': the general election of 1945.

British soldier, explorer and big game hunter Frederick Selous, pictured in 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The hunter who became a naturalist.

BBC History Magazine

The Red Flag

A statue of Lenin in Germany being removed from its plinth to be demolished. (Photo by Régis BOSSU/Sygma via Getty Images)

Looking back at The End of History

BBC History Magazine

Pistols at Dawn

Medieval petitions and 17th-century astronomers.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announces the outbreak of the Second World War in a BBC broadcast, 1939. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

History hero: Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914).

Secrets of WWII, the French Revolution and 'The History of Scotland'.

My history hero: Hubert Butler (1900–1991).

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), author of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The decline and fall of the British Empire.

The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Communist Moscow.

The Duke of Wellington.