Politics

A man digs a grave in Sarajevo for victims of the war in Bosnia, 1992

Yugoslavia: why shared Slavic identity couldn’t save an idealised nation from fracture and bloodshed

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Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 9: Secrets of being a successful leader

A UFO photographed in New Mexico by a government employee. The image was released by the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization after careful study. It is unknown what the image shows.(Photo by Getty Images)

How UFOs conquered the world – without firing a shot

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

From Walpole to Johnson: lessons from the 300-year history of the British prime minister

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Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 8: Margaret Thatcher

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Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 7: Lord Salisbury

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Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 6: Winston Churchill

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Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 5: Pitt the Younger

Apartheid road sign

Your guide to apartheid in South Africa

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Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 4: Harold Wilson

This caricature of those meetings depicts proceedings turning to chaos, thanks to the arrival of Napoleon – freshly escaped from his exile on Elba before 'the cake' (Europe) has even been cut

Europe after Napoleon: what the Congress of Vienna meant for the coalition powers

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Clement Attlee: Labour’s postwar leader

Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

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Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 3: Clement Attlee

British troops guard a wall during the Irish War of Independence, which bears a nationalist message

The Irish Republican Army: a brief guide