Politics

Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher in season 4 of 'The Crown'

The Crown S4 E5 real history: Michael Fagan’s Buckingham Palace break-in and the Falklands crisis

Emma Corrin as Diana and Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip in season 4 of 'The Crown'

The Crown S4 E2 real history: what are the Balmoral tests?

Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten in season 4 of 'The Crown'

The Crown S4 E1 real history: when Charles met Diana, and the death of Lord Mountbatten

Apartheid road sign

Your guide to apartheid

Queen Elizabeth II at Falkland Islands remembrance service 2007

Was the Queen opposed to the Falklands War?

Charlotta Bass (centre) was a newspaper publisher, activist and would-be US vice president, who fought against racial discrimination and social injustice. She's seen here with presidential running mate Vincent Hallinan (to Charlotta’s right) and singer and actor-turned-activist Paul Robeson

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

President Donald Trump

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

Robert Service answers key questions about the Russian Revolution. (Image by Getty Images)

The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know

Guy Fawkes and the men behind the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, best known of the conspirators, is third from the right. (Print Collector/Getty Images)

Why did the 1605 gunpowder plot fail? 9 big questions about the conspiracy to blow up parliament

President Nixon making final TV address

The 5 most notorious presidents in US history

Solon, an Athenian statesman (left) laid the foundations for democracy

Your guide to... the history of democracy

Eleanor Marx Aveling, the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

In profile: Eleanor Marx, daughter of Karl Marx

Abraham Lincoln

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

Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Even after her death in 2013, her record continued to be fiercely contested. (Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

How should history remember Margaret Thatcher?

A photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken after his November 1860 election and before his March 1861 inauguration.

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