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

Politics

President Reagan laughs following a joke by Queen Elizabeth, who commented on the lousy California weather she had experienced since her arrival to the States. The British Queen is delivering a brief address during a state dinner held at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. (Picture by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth's relationships with US presidents

The letter that betrayed the gunpowder plotters.

Cuba & the USA: an intertwined history.

Chaos, ruin & renewal: Germany in 1945.

Prime minister Edward Heath

A brief history of U-turns.

Afghan fighters on top of a destroyed Soviet helicopter, 1980 (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images)

War without end: conflict in Afghanistan, from the Cold War Soviet invasion to the Taliban.

Prime minister and king in black and white photo

Q&APrior to 2022, has there ever been a new monarch and prime minister in Britain in the same week?.

Prime Minister David Lloyd George, sitting at a desk

The fall of Lloyd GeorgeA dramatic and significant Prime Ministerial downfall.

Anthony Eden addresses BBC cameras in 1956

BBC at 1001950s friction between government and the BBC.

Anti-Chinese prejudice: from gold rushes to exclusion laws.

The election of Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s first female prime minister

The rise of Giorgia Meloni“It makes plain the strange way a dictator has retained a positive image in many sectors of Italian society”.

Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China.

The Napoleon of Fleet Street.

Image of Empress Matilda

What if…Empress Matilda had defeated King Stephen?.

Benito Mussolini

Mussolini's willing followers? The Italians devoted to Fascism and the duce.

Mussolini salutes in front of the statue of the Roman emperor Nerva, in the 1930s

How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism

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

General History

QuizBritish prime ministers

Russia’s national past: unpicking history from propaganda.

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

From Walpole to TrussLessons from the 300-year history of the British prime minister.

A 1773 allegorical engraving of the three powers partitioning Poland

Why we should remember…the first Partition of Poland.

East German leader Willi Stoph greets West German chancellor Willy Brandt at Erfurt. (Getty images)

Cold War summits: how USA & USSR leaders worked to end the conflict.

National Woman’s Party activists sew a star onto their ‘ratification flag'

Why we should remember…The 19th amendment.

Second World War allies Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (left to right) at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. East and west would soon become bitter rivals, however

The Cold War: 9 key questions

George C Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which pledged billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn Europe

What was the Marshall Plan?

Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative party

Behind the newsWhy PMs get the push.

Richard Nixon at the White House with his family following his resignation as president, 9 August 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Richard Nixon's final address: the day the president departed the White House.

The Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, on display at the British Museum

The Elgin Marbles: what are they and where are they located?

Sir Graham Brady (centre), chairman of the 1922 Committee, announces that Theresa May has survived an attempt by Tory MPs to oust her as party leader with a motion of no confidence

1922 CommitteeWhy are the Tory 'men in grey suits' so influential?.

The origins of the Conservative Party can be traced to the ‘Tory’ group in parliament which emerged in the last quarter of the 17th century and, led by Lord Bolingbroke (pictured) and Robert Harley, held power during the final years of Queen Anne’s reign. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Why are they called Tories?A brief history of the Conservative Party.

A black-and-white photograph of men walking down a road lined with shops. They are armed with guns

The Irish Civil War: 100 years on.