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Mary Sarotte reveals how US and Russian leaders squandered the opportunity to forge a lasting partnership at the dawn of the 1990s. (Image by Getty Images)

How US-Russian relations fractured in the 1990s . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Unionist leader Edward Carson (centre) and colleagues visit Derry/Londonderry, September 1912 – the month when nearly half a million people signed a “Solemn League and Covenant” to resist home rule

Resolving the ‘Irish Question’: 5 key moments on the path to partition

Shakespeare's house in Stratford-Upon-Avon

Q&A Why was Stratford-upon-Avon a hotbed of Confederate activity?

A follower is reflected on a framed photograph of Bhimrao Ambedkar

Bhim Rao Ambedkar: India’s ‘untouchable’ hero

Winston Churchill delivering his famous 'iron curtain' speech at Westminster College

Second World War

8 of Churchill’s greatest speeches

Woman waving a union jack flag emblazoned with a swastika

In pictures: Interwar fascism

An illustration of the Gunpowder Plot principal conspirators, copied from a rare print published at the time (5 November 1605). (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images).

Remember remember the 5th of November: why Bonfire Night is a 400-year-old political hot potato

What is the history of bonfire night? (Photo by Dreamstime)

A very short history of bonfire night

Guy Fawkes and the men behind the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, best known of the conspirators, is third from the right. (Print Collector/Getty Images)

Why did the 1605 gunpowder plot fail? 9 big questions about the conspiracy to blow up parliament

Black and white image of several African men pushing two French missionaries in a sort of chair with wheels.

Think piece Why history must take a stance

Illustration of the Red Dragon of China

Has China always been the world’s greatest superpower?

Mário Soares of the Socialist Party basks in public adulation after becoming prime minister in the election of 1976. (Photo by Getty Images)

Your guide to the Carnation Revolution

Adolf Hitler stands with his back to a statue of Discobolos, the Discus Thrower

The classics and racial hatred: how the far right hijacked the ancient world

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Sumita Mukherjee discusses India’s women’s suffrage movement, and how it connected to the wider struggle for Indian independence

India’s Suffragettes . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Politicians in suits discuss the Paris Peace Treaty inside the Palace of Versailles

The Paris Peace Conference: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.