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

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Anthony Eden addresses BBC cameras in 1956

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BBC at 1001950s friction between government and the BBC. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anti-Chinese prejudice: from gold rushes to exclusion laws. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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The rise of Giorgia Meloni“It makes plain the strange way a dictator has retained a positive image in many sectors of Italian society”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Napoleon of Fleet Street. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image of Empress Matilda

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Benito Mussolini

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Mussolini's willing followers? The Italians devoted to Fascism and the duce. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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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

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Russia’s national past: unpicking history from propaganda. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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From Walpole to TrussLessons from the 300-year history of the British prime minister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1773 allegorical engraving of the three powers partitioning Poland

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

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Cold War summits: how USA & USSR leaders worked to end the conflict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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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

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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

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What was the Marshall Plan?

Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative party

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

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

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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

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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)

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Why are they called Tories?A brief history of the Conservative Party. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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The Irish Civil War: 100 years on. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain’s century of political nightmares. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

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Q&AWhat was the Winter of Discontent?

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

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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

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Franz Ferdinand“This mythologised murder did not trigger WW1”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Your guide to the miners’ strike of 1984–85

Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm

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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”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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