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

Politics

Harold Wilson: the rock 'n' roll prime minister

2024 in review: history behind the headlines

The massacre that shattered the old Ottoman world

Holy sites of multiple religions stud Jerusalem’s skyline, including the Dome of the Rock (Photo by KiyechkaSo/Shutterstock)

“I don’t underestimate how difficult it is to satisfy everybody” | Simon Sebag Montefiore on writing the history of Jerusalem

Britain's wild republican decade

Iain Duncan Smith and Robert Peel

My history heroIain Duncan Smith chooses Robert Peel

History behind the headlines: Trump's win – parallels with the past

Members of the National Front speak to the press in 1978. Chairman John Tyndall (second from left) was a neo-Nazi who later founded the British National Party (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

From Mosley to the summer riots of 2024: the opportunistic evolution of Britain’s far right

William Dalrymple (Photo by David Hartley/Shutterstock)

“Like ancient Greece, India is one of the seedbeds of civilisation” | William Dalrymple on putting India back at the centre of global history

Michael Wood"The making of our new world began in China just over 40 years ago"

Joseph McCarthy: life of the week

Richard Nixon gives the thumbs-up after his resignation

General History

6 shocking presidential scandals that rocked the White House: from the Petticoat Affair to Clinton-Lewinsky

President Joe Biden delivers a speech

General History

Life after the White House: what the US presidents did next

Charlotta Bass, the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy, Al Gore and George W Bush

General History

Lincoln, Adams and George W Bush: 6 disputed presidential elections in American history

Abraham Lincoln

How Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election victory set America on the path to Civil War

Fire rages in Dublin’s ‘Four Courts’, housing the Public Record Office of Ireland, in 1922. Many historical documents were destroyed in the conflagration. (Photo by Getty Images)

InterviewRobert Bartlett: "The complexity of modern national politics has placed history at risk"

English prime minister Spencer Perceval being assassinated by bankrupt businessman John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons

Why was Spencer Perceval assassinated? Inside the killing of a Georgian prime minister

Communism: everything you wanted to know

Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan's future

A Chinese tank nears the city of Lang Son in Vietnam, 1979 and (right) Chinese and Vietnamese ministers meet for talks, 1991. Rana Mitter highlights the role of diplomacy in bringing war between Vietnam and China to an end.

Historians debate: how do intractable conflicts come to an end?

Exterior of the White House, Washington, D.C

Who built the White House?

Former British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald sitting behind a desk

Where does the term ‘champagne socialist’ come from?

The UK's far right movement: history behind the headlines

Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown, Mass

What was the Chappaquiddick incident?

Two men duelling. The man in foreground holds a smoking gun. The man in the background is falling, one hand to his face, his pistol limp in his hand

Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir? The real story of the maligned Founding Father and 'villain' of Hamilton

Schoolchildren from Capel Celyn with a banner saying 'Liverpool shall not drown Capel Celyn'

Capel CelynThe Welsh village that became a reservoir for England

Illustration shows force-feeding of suffragettes

What was the Cat and Mouse Act? The reason why suffragettes were force-fed

ILLUSTRATION BY HUGH COWLING

From the bitter battle of 1832 to the poll that cemented the two-party system: 7 elections that rocked Britain

Sir Lindsay Hoyle and William Lenthall with a purple background.

My history heroSir Lindsay Hoyle chooses William Lenthall