Politics

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Pod Mae Ngai WL

Anti-Chinese prejudice: from gold rushes to exclusion laws . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The election of Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s first female prime minister

The rise of Giorgia Meloni “It makes plain the strange way a dictator has retained a positive image in many sectors of Italian society” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Henrietta Harrison WL

Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Andrew Roberts WL

The Napoleon of Fleet Street . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Image of Empress Matilda

What if… Empress Matilda had defeated King Stephen? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Benito Mussolini

Mussolini’s willing followers? The Italians devoted to Fascism and the duce . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mussolini salutes in front of the statue of the Roman emperor Nerva, in the 1930s

How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

General History

Quiz British prime ministers

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Pod Orlando Figes WL

Russia’s national past: unpicking history from propaganda . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

From Walpole to Truss Lessons from the 300-year history of the British prime minister . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A 1773 allegorical engraving of the three powers partitioning Poland

Why we should remember… the first Partition of Poland . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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East German leader Willi Stoph greets West German chancellor Willy Brandt at Erfurt. (Getty images)

Cold War summits: how USA & USSR leaders worked to end the conflict . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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National Woman’s Party activists sew a star onto their ‘ratification flag'

Why we should remember… The 19th amendment . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War allies Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (left to right) at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. East and west would soon become bitter rivals, however

The Cold War: 9 key questions

George C Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which pledged billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn Europe

What was the Marshall Plan?