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

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An illustration of Vikings sailing on a longship across the Atlantic

General History

Who owns Greenland? Why the island's history is more complicated than you think

US president Jimmy Carter stands at a lecturn in front of the US flag

Jimmy Carter: a moral man but a diffident president

Harold Wilson: the rock 'n' roll prime minister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

2024 in review: history behind the headlines. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The massacre that shattered the old Ottoman world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Holy sites of multiple religions stud Jerusalem’s skyline, including the Dome of the Rock (Photo by KiyechkaSo/Shutterstock)

“I don’t underestimate how difficult it is to satisfy everybody” | Simon Sebag Montefiore on writing the history of Jerusalem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain's wild republican decade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Iain Duncan Smith and Robert Peel

My history heroIain Duncan Smith chooses Robert Peel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History behind the headlines: Trump's win – parallels with the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Members of the National Front speak to the press in 1978. Chairman John Tyndall (second from left) was a neo-Nazi who later founded the British National Party (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

From Mosley to the summer riots of 2024: the opportunistic evolution of Britain’s far right. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Dalrymple (Photo by David Hartley/Shutterstock)

“Like ancient Greece, India is one of the seedbeds of civilisation” | William Dalrymple on putting India back at the centre of global history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael Wood"The making of our new world began in China just over 40 years ago". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joseph McCarthy: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard Nixon gives the thumbs-up after his resignation

General History

6 shocking presidential scandals that rocked the White House: from the Petticoat Affair to Clinton-Lewinsky

President Joe Biden delivers a speech

General History

Life after the White House: what the US presidents did next

Charlotta Bass, the first black woman to be nominated to the US Vice Presidency

Charlotta Bass: the first woman of colour to run for US vice president

Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy, Al Gore and George W Bush

General History

Lincoln, Adams and George W Bush: 6 disputed presidential elections in American history

Abraham Lincoln

How Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election victory set America on the path to Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fire rages in Dublin’s ‘Four Courts’, housing the Public Record Office of Ireland, in 1922. Many historical documents were destroyed in the conflagration. (Photo by Getty Images)

InterviewRobert Bartlett: "The complexity of modern national politics has placed history at risk". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English prime minister Spencer Perceval being assassinated by bankrupt businessman John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons

Why was Spencer Perceval assassinated? Inside the killing of a Georgian prime minister

Communism: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan's future. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Chinese tank nears the city of Lang Son in Vietnam, 1979 and (right) Chinese and Vietnamese ministers meet for talks, 1991. Rana Mitter highlights the role of diplomacy in bringing war between Vietnam and China to an end.

Historians debate: how do intractable conflicts come to an end?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Exterior of the White House, Washington, D.C

Who built the White House?

Former British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald sitting behind a desk

Where does the term ‘champagne socialist’ come from?

The UK's far right movement: history behind the headlines. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown, Mass

What was the Chappaquiddick incident?

Two men duelling. The man in foreground holds a smoking gun. The man in the background is falling, one hand to his face, his pistol limp in his hand

Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir? The real story of the maligned Founding Father and 'villain' of Hamilton

Schoolchildren from Capel Celyn with a banner saying 'Liverpool shall not drown Capel Celyn'

Capel CelynThe Welsh village that became a reservoir for England

Illustration shows force-feeding of suffragettes

What was the Cat and Mouse Act? The reason why suffragettes were force-fed