Governments can be constitutional monarchies, dictatorships, federal republics, parliamentary democracies, constitutional republics. More than a system of rules and regulations, they help civilized people to live together peacefully. These stories explore different forms of government.
This clip is part two of Valerie Singleton's 1973 television interview with Margaret Thatcher.
Some of the people who knew Denis Thatcher well - Bill Deedes, Bernard Ingham and Matthew Parris - agreed to talk about the Prime Minister's consort w...
In this clip, of interviews conducted by Carol Thatcher, some of Denis Thatcher's friends (or associates) describe the Prime Minister's consort.
WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME FIRST DEVELOPED, THEN IMPLEMENTED, THE DEPORTATION AND GASSING OF JEWISH PEOPLE.
As fiercely opposing sides gathered in Oxford, Mississippi - at the campus of Ole Miss - a battle over desegregation intensified.
Slaves helped to build the White House which upset First Lady Abigail Adams. She and John Adams were the first family to move into the Executive Mansi...
When the BBC created its series "The World at War"—narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier—producers did not use all of the available historica...
Prince Albert, known to his friends and family as "Bertie," has a new title - the Duke of York - when Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon finally agrees to marry him...
American papers publish what the British papers will not publish about King Edward's relationship with Wallis Simpson.
This clip, from David Starkey's four-part series Elizabeth, focuses on the Queen's accession to the throne and her coronation at Westminster Abbey (on...
Robert Dudley (1532-1588), later the 1st Earl of Leicester, and Elizabeth I were close friends from the time Elizabeth became queen until Dudley died.
WARNING: THIS CLIP INCLUDES LANGUAGE WHICH DESCRIBES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HENRY VIII AND ANNE BOLEYN.
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