Refugees in Vietnam

Asia

15 minutes of fameRana Mitter chooses Tsiang Tingfu

Tsiang Ting-fuChinese historian and diplomat

Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London

Second World War

WW2 timeline: 20 important dates and milestones you need to know

Training of young Rwandan Hutu on the road to Kigali, 27 June 1994

Genocide: what can we learn from history?

Photo of Chinese Red Guards

The Gordons: Prisoners of the Cultural Revolution

Nixon in China: a week that changed the world

Nixon in China: the trip that changed the Cold War

Soldiers from Mao Zedong’s Red Army assemble in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, 1936 (Photo by Getty)

The Chinese Civil War: a guide to the conflict and the rise of Mao Zedong

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

Mao’s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to know

When were punctuation marks first used? Illustration by Glen McBeth for BBC History Magazine.

General History

Q&AWhen were punctuation marks first used?

History's greatest mysteriesWhy did Mao’s chosen successor flee China?

Pearl HarborEpisode 3

Pearl HarborEpisode 2

The battleship USS California following the attack at Pearl Harbor

Second World War

Pearl Harbor: 12 facts about the surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet

A Japanese photograph shows Mitsubishi dive bombers warming up on the deck of a carrier in the Pacific before their attack on Pearl Harbor in the early hours of 7 December 1941. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

'Britain’s Pearl Harbor': Japan's December 1941 attack on the British colony of Malaya

A gathering storm: why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor in 1941?

Pearl HarborEpisode 1

A follower is reflected on a framed photograph of Bhimrao Ambedkar

Bhim Rao Ambedkar: India’s 'untouchable' hero

A 14th-century illustration of a farmer leading a pack animal through the ice and snow

The surprisingly modern Middle Ages

A modern fireworks display

General ancient history

Q&AHow were fireworks made in ancient China?

Workers package Chicken Ramen, the first mass-produced instant noodles, in a factory in Japan, c1960

The age of noodles: Momofuku Ando and the rise of ramen in post-war Japan

Asia’s anti-imperial revolutionaries

Illustration of the Red Dragon of China

Has China always been the world’s greatest superpower?

How Hindustan became India

Sumita Mukherjee discusses India’s women’s suffrage movement, and how it connected to the wider struggle for Indian independence

India’s Suffragettes

From Meiji to modernity: how Japan reinvented itself through the 20th century

Statue of Ibn Battuta at the Islamic culture center, Quanzhou, Fujian, China

Ibn Battuta: the most famous traveller of the medieval Arab world

A photograph of the England team that faced Australia at the Oval in the 1896 Ashes series

Batting for the British Empire: how Victorian cricket was more than just a game

The history hidden in British heritage sites