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

Politics

Who moulded Winston Churchill?.

Irsraeli Prime Minister Golda Meir sits at a desk, with one arm on the table

Israel’s Iron Lady: the real story of Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur War

General History

British parliament: everything you wanted to know.

Hitler and French Marshal Henri-Phillipe Petain

Second World War

Vichy France: your guide to the WW2 regime

Roger Mortimer and Isabella of France shown with their army in a 15th-century illustration. In the background, the body of Edward II’s favourite, Hugh le Despenser, is being quartered (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

Roger Mortimer: the rebel baron who escaped the Tower to challenge Edward II.

Napoleon Bonaparte depicted as emperor of France in c1804. By now he had his sights set on establishing a dynasty (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

How Napoleon (almost) destroyed the French Revolution.

1980s Britain: everything you wanted to know.

Juneteenth celebrations, also known as Emancipation Day, in Texas, 1900

JuneteenthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, and 9 articles you should read

Charles I in Parliament in 1642, where he made an abortive attempt to arrest five MPs, from a 19th-century painting by Charles West Cope (Photo by The Print Collector/Alamy Stock Photo)

8 reasons why the Civil War broke out.

A joint British-Jewish patrol in Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab Revolt (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

How Britain stirred the cauldron of conflict in Palestine.

Prime minister Ramsay MacDonald (left) and chancellor Philip Snowden (right) at 10 Downing Street in 1929, two years before they formed a controversial National Government (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Alleged coups and government traitors: conspiracy theories in 20th-century British politics.

Bishops tumble, with “popish” paraphernalia falling from their pockets, in a woodcut from a 1641 Puritan pamphlet titled 'A Decade of Grievances' (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

How people power fuelled England's century of chaos.

Why revolution engulfed 19th-century Europe.

WW2 the big questions: the ‘Big Three’.

British prime minister Tony Blair, US Senator George Mitchell and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement

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.

Women's history podcast episodes

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

The kingdom is deadWhat causes monarchies to fail?.

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 RomeHow Italy became the first fascist state

A secret Nazi plot to kill the ‘Big Three’.

How FDR transformed the US presidency.

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

Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire.