20th Century

Uncertain futures: Children of black American servicemen and white British women often spent time in case, such as this group photographed at Holnicote House in Somerset. (Photo by Lesley York – Author provided)

Mixed-race babies born after the Second World War

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini give a fascist salute

A dictator’s death: how Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other self-styled strongmen met their ends

Margaret Thatcher enters Downing Street

How to win an election: 25 general elections and where they were won – and lost

Rotten boroughs cartoon

9 general election curiosities through history

A voter in a British election in 1923.

A new political climate? The UK’s long tradition of winter elections

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Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up

Presidents under pressure: the resignation of Richard Nixon and the impeachment case against Trump . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Three elderly men on a bench in London's Southall, circa 1980. (Photo by Getty Images)

Asians in 1980s Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A family at the seaside in the 1960s.

In pictures: English life in the 1960s, photographed by Tony Ray-Jones

Lord Mountbatten at a desk

Lord Mountbatten: Did Prince Philip’s uncle attempt to lead a coup against Harold Wilson’s government?

Einstein on the run

Einstein on the run: when the brilliant scientist fled to England

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Lord Louis Mountbatten with his fiancee Edwina Ashley in 1922. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Mountbattens: success and scandal . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lauren Bruner and Iyozo Fujita

Pearl Harbor: 5 frontline stories from people who were there

Rosa Parks rides an integrated bus

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King: the boycott that inspired the dream

Members of the Ku Klux Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1925. The Klan of this era was a terrorist group in the precise meaning of that term, says Linda Gordon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

When the Ku Klux Klan was a mass movement

Princess Margaret wearing a fur coat

Princess Margaret: from glamorous royal to a slide into tragedy