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Fires burn in Baghdad following an attack on the Iraqi capital, March 2003. The motives for the war continue to spark controversy (Photo by Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

“The early 2000s was a strange era of fear and terror”: remembering the Iraq War 20 years on . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Engraving depicting the assassination of Julius Caesar

Q&A Why do we need to beware the Ides of March?

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Women's history podcast episodes

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King Alfonso XIII of Spain, Charles I of England, Puyi of China and Lydia Liliuokalani of Hawaii

The kingdom is dead What causes monarchies to fail? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A century since women's suffrage. (Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for BBC History Magazine)

Women’s rights in the 20th century: what happened after the vote was won? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fascist leaders pictured a few days before the March on Rome, October 1922. Benito Mussolini (centre) would soon be the most powerful man in Italy (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images)

Mussolini's March on Rome How Italy became the first fascist state

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A secret Nazi plot to kill the ‘Big Three’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Iwan Morgan WL

How FDR transformed the US presidency . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

King James VII and II depicted while in exile in France.

What were the 1707 Acts of Union and what did they achieve?

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Illustration of figures holding hand

The long fight over abortion rights in the United States . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Postal workers at a rally outside the houses of parliament, December 2022 and (right) ambulance staff march through London, 1979

Britain’s century of strikes: the history behind today’s industrial action

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J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

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Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.