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Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto and a mountain in the background

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British Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher faces the press outside London's Europa Hotel following her victory in the leadership election, 20 February 1975. (Photo by Frank Barratt/Keystone/Getty Images)

Bolting to the ballot box: Snap elections through history

Britain’s road to democracy: slow and not always steady

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Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, a PPP candidate (Pakistan People's Party), campaigning from the sun roof of a car. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of women cycling along the beach at Newquay, c1923. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Choppers, burners and boneshakers: the rise of British cycling

Demonstrators block the gates of the Greenham Common Airbase, tied together with string. The demonstrators were members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) group. (Getty Images)

The nuclear 1980s

From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)

What is it like to be a female historian in the 21st century?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An indigenous Aymara woman selling herbs at La Paz's Witches' Market

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A still from 'Guerrilla', a new Sky Atlantic drama inspired by emergence of British Black Power. (Sky UK Limited)

'Guerrilla' and the real history of British Black Power

Women in popular history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roots: a necessary portrayal of transatlantic slavery?

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Tom Holland in conversation with Pankaj Mishra about his book Age of Anger

Age of Anger: Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Tom Holland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap district in Cape Town South Africa

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A portrait of James Gordon Bennett, Jr (1841–1918), by Alexis Joseph Perignon, 1867. (Photo by The New York Historical Society/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Gordon Bennett’?

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Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum Tristram Hunt. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

History-loving politicians

Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history

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Donald Trump’s unsurprising victory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Donald Trump elected president: the historians’ verdict

America's devious dream: Roosevelt and the Panama Canal

“I’ve been close to death nine times”: John Simpson on life as a foreign correspondent

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The Aberfan disaster and women who made history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Former US president Ronald Reagan and president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 16 September 1990. (Photo by Wojtek Laski/Getty Images)

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