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The surprisingly long history of humanity's political development

The A to Z of royal weddings with Tracy Borman

Britain’s slaves in Latin America

A big day in history: the debate on whether Britain should join the European Community

My history hero: Samuel Johnson (1709-84). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lincoln’s British enemies

Illustration by Jonty Clark

Ye olde travel guide: St Petersburg 1725. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall

Civil rights and the Civil War

Two women from South America. Six centuries ago South American civilisations matched the west in some respects. (Getty Images)

The wonder of the west

Barbary pirates: kidnapped in Iceland

England and Wales: best of enemies?

Jerusalem: blood and gold

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Robert Burns: the people’s poet. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Toilers of the deep: the lives of Edwardian deep sea fishermen

The Beatles - John Lennon. (ITV pictures)

John Lennon: Three films

A bus makes its way down Fleet Street towards Ludgate Hill Circus and St Paul's Cathedral, London, c1888. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A history of the high street

What did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?

England in miniature

American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Twain, standing outside on a porch. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Mark Twain: America’s historical conscience?

The Atlantic and Its Enemies

The reverend in the lion’s den

My history hero: Philip Pembroke Stephens (1903–37). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

‘Smugglers', c1785, from ‘Adventures by sea from art of old time’ by Basil Lubbock. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Smugglers and the birth of Britain’s consumer society

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), pictured here c1895, is one of the most important figures in modern Russian literature. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Anton Chekhov (1860–1904). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The English writer and radio broadcaster JB Priestley at home on the Isle of Wight, 1933. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

My history hero: JB Priestley (1894–1984). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Alfred Jewel: gold, rock, crystal and enamel

Objects of affection

Evening light sweeps over the ruins of the Jesuit mission church at Trinidad de Paraná, Paraguay, where the bell tower of the site's first of two churches stands. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and were abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. (Photo by Kevin Moloney via Getty Images)

Jesuit missionaries: “a masterpiece of humanity”

A statue of Lenin in Germany being removed from its plinth to be demolished. (Photo by Régis BOSSU/Sygma via Getty Images)

Looking back at The End of History