Politics

Richard Nixon resigns

A brief history of presidential impeachment

Robert Tombs on Brexit's long historical roots. (Image by Getty Images)

Brexit’s long historical roots

Professor Robert Tombs, Fellow of French history at St John's College

“Both sides of the Brexit debate have got things wrong about our history”: Robert Tombs on Britain’s complex relationship with Europe

Catherine Merridale on Lenin. (Image by Getty Images)

Editor’s pick: Lenin’s revolutionary train journey

Biographer Ron Chernow discusses the extraordinary life of the American Founding Father who inspired a hit musical. (Image by Getty Images)

Editor’s pick: Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton

Charles Dickens used his novels as a platform from which to attack the injustices that he believed blighted 19th-century Britain. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Charles Dickens: prison reformer, scourge of capitalists, champion of the poor

Portrait of founding father Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, c1806. (Photo by National Gallery Of Art/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

Your guide to Alexander Hamilton, plus 6 fascinating facts about the founding father

Marble bust of Nero

Rethinking Nero: was the Roman emperor really so bad?

Thomas Cromwell, Tudor statesman and 'alter rex'.

Your guide to Cardinal Wolsey, Tudor statesman and prince of the church

Kerri Greenidge, Tom Holland, Suzannah Lipscomb and Michael Wood debate the historical context of 2020

2020: The historians’ verdict

Marble bust of Caligula

Caligula: murderous and depraved, or a victim of history?

Kiran Klaus Patel tracks the development of the EU over the postwar decades, considering whether it really did bring peace to the continent. (Image by Getty Images)

Has the EU been a success?

Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher attend a ball to celebrate the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, 1979 in Lusaka, Zambia. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II: what was their relationship like?

Emma Corrin as Princess Diana in season 4 of ‘The Crown’

The Crown S4 E10 real history: Thatcher’s resignation and the unravelling of a royal marriage

Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher in season 4 of ‘The Crown’

The Crown S4 E8 real history: why did Margaret Thatcher & the Queen clash over apartheid in South Africa?