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

Politics

Dandy Gandhi to naked Fakir: the Indian leader's revolutionary dress code

A portrait of Winston Churchill

'Ask your father': the general election of 1945

British soldier, explorer and big game hunter Frederick Selous, pictured in 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The hunter who became a naturalist

BBC History Magazine

The Red Flag

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

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Pistols at Dawn

Medieval petitions and 17th-century astronomers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announces the outbreak of the Second World War in a BBC broadcast, 1939. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

History hero: Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Secrets of WWII, the French Revolution and 'The History of Scotland'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Hubert Butler (1900–1991). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), author of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The decline and fall of the British Empire

The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Communist Moscow

The Duke of Wellington. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.