1.   A reporter characterized Mrs. Clinton as the most controversial first lady in modern history.

2.   Equally ironic was the fact that four years earlier Johnson had won the biggest percentage of the popular vote in modern history.

3.   It was an outrageous action, the worst violation of the basic principle of diplomatic immunity in modern history.

4.   The book is a vain attempt to glorify the name of one of the worst dictators in modern history.

5.   The modern history of the Catholic Church has been immensely affected by that chain of events.

6.   The rest is miserable modern history.

7.   The United States is the most peaceful, least warlike nation in modern history.

8.   The Polam School sixth-former has obtained a rare unconditional entry to Lady Margaret Hall to read modern history.

9.   She grew up in the north-east of England and graduated from Somerville College, Oxford, with first-class honours in modern history.

10.   John Rohl is a historian with a special expertise in modern German history.