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A copy of the Declaration of Arbroath is held by the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh – the actual letter sent to Pope John XXII is lost (Photo by M.Brodie / Alamy Stock Photo)

The Declaration of Arbroath: your guide to Scotland’s historic document

Fires burn in Baghdad following an attack on the Iraqi capital, March 2003. The motives for the war continue to spark controversy (Photo by Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

“The early 2000s was a strange era of fear and terror”: remembering the Iraq War 20 years on

Engraving depicting the assassination of Julius Caesar

Q&A Why do we need to beware the Ides of March?

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King Alfonso XIII of Spain, Charles I of England, Puyi of China and Lydia Liliuokalani of Hawaii

General History

The kingdom is dead What causes monarchies to fail?

A century since women's suffrage. (Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for BBC History Magazine)

Women’s rights in the 20th century: what happened after the vote was won?

Fascist leaders pictured a few days before the March on Rome, October 1922. Benito Mussolini (centre) would soon be the most powerful man in Italy (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images)

Mussolini's March on Rome How Italy became the first fascist state

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Second World War

A secret Nazi plot to kill the ‘Big Three’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How FDR transformed the US presidency . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

King James VII and II depicted while in exile in France.

What were the 1707 Acts of Union and what did they achieve?

Illustration of figures holding hand

The long fight over abortion rights in the United States

Postal workers at a rally outside the houses of parliament, December 2022 and (right) ambulance staff march through London, 1979

Britain’s century of strikes: the history behind today’s industrial action

J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America

A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland