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A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

Mahatma Gandhi in Britain

Gandhi in Britain

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Churchill’s days of destiny. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The red dawn: the October Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Munich Conference. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The White House, Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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George Warleggan. (Image credit: BBC/Mammoth Screen/Robert Viglasky)

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Benito Mussolini with members of the Black shirt Legion

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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

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Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev looking disappointed frustrated

The 1986 Reykjavík Summit: when hopes for nuclear peace were dashed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Government troops patrol a village during the Salvadoran Civil War

The end of El Salvador's civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American president Franklin D Roosevelt

Second World War

Life of the Week: President Franklin D Roosevelt

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Q&AQ&A: Why is Portugal known as Britain’s oldest ally?

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Cold War summits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

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A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square

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Anita Anand on Sophia Duleep Singh: goddaughter of Queen Victoria and prominent campaigner for women’s rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Grand National Union Banner depicting president Abraham Lincoln and his running mate Andrew Johnson

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