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Benito Mussolini with members of the Black shirt Legion

The thorns in Mussolini’s side: the anti-Fascists who opposed the Italian regime

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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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Britain’s road to democracy: slow and not always steady

Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev looking disappointed frustrated

The 1986 Reykjavík Summit: when hopes for nuclear peace were dashed

Government troops patrol a village during the Salvadoran Civil War

The end of El Salvador’s civil war

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Life of the Week: President Franklin D Roosevelt

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Persuading the people: British propaganda in the Second World War

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Donald Trump’s unsurprising victory . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election night party at the Hilton Midtown hotel in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States in a repudiation of the political establishment that jolted financial markets and likely will reorder the nation's priorities and fundamentally alter America's relationship with the world. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Donald Trump elected president: the historians’ verdict

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

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Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

The Library Britain’s tearoom fascists

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

Britain at war over Vietnam