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

Politics

Britain’s century of political nightmares.

15 minutes of fameRana Mitter chooses Tsiang Tingfu.

Montage of five British prime ministers: David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Anthony Eden, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher

Prime ministersFive of the greatest downfalls of the past 100 years.

A portrait of Benjamin Franklin. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The Treaty of Paris 1783: how to negotiate an exit.

A man walking past a pile of uncollected rubbish during the Winter of Discontent, 22 September 1978

Q&AWhat was the Winter of Discontent?

An overturned vehicle on tramlines as a blockage to traffic during the General Strike of 1926

A brief history of strike action.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, with his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, riding in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination on 28 June 1914

Franz Ferdinand“This mythologised murder did not trigger WW1”.

An angry crowd of around 400 miners blockade National Coal Board boss Ian McGregor inside a colliery office at Ellinton Colliery, 22 February 1984

Your guide to the miners’ strike of 1984–85

Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm

Joyce Lee Malcolm on gun ownership in America“Why is the right to be armed such an emotional one for Americans? No police force can protect everyone, or even any one, all of the time”.

Watergate at 50: the making of an American scandal.

US president Richard Nixon in 1970

After Watergate: the fallout of an American scandal.

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

Your guide to the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon

Photo of Richard Nixon at a rally in 1968

Richard Nixon: the rise and fall of an American president.

Shady deals & rigged elections: the changing face of corruption.

A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois

The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate?.

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

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

The Great Seal of the Commonwealth of England

The Interregnum: Britain's republican decade.

Eurovision: a political history.

The coats of arms of the kingdoms of Scotland and France

Q&AHow old is the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland?

Training of young Rwandan Hutu on the road to Kigali, 27 June 1994

Genocide: what can we learn from history?.

Corruption in the ancient world.

Trade unions: everything you wanted to know.

Polish coat of arms on red background

Poland and Ukraine’s shared history: how dreams of nationhood endure.

A cartoon published by Benjamin Franklin c1770 urging the colonies to unite and resist British rule. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Benjamin Franklin: from British patriot to American hero.

United States and Nato flags fly above US Air Force fighter jets in Lithuania

Is the future of Nato under threat?.

Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the history of neutrality“As many nations found to their cost in the 20th century, declaring neutrality and it being respected are two different matters”.

Four flapper women line up along a wall and chug bottles of liquor in the 1920s.

Flappers, sanitary pads and public drinking: was the 1920s a time of increased liberation for women?

Our Winston Churchill obsession.

President Bill Clinton laughs at Boris Yeltsin's joke during a joint news conference in Hyde Park, New York, October 1995

“We missed a precious window”: why did America and Russia squander an opportunity for peace in the 1990s?.

Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the Russia-Ukraine war“The language, tactics, and weapons hark back to the 1940s”.