Refugees in Vietnam

Asia

VJ Day: turning the tide in the east. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Saladin (1560) by Cristofano Dell Altissimo.

Why does Saladin have such an enduring reputation?

The Ottoman empire: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scientists Frederic Joliot-Curie and his wife, Irene, at work in their Paris laboratory in December 1932. The couple were among a wide-ranging group of scientists whose work paved the way for the atomic bomb. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Hiroshima: the race to the atomic bomb. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Students study mathematics in Lahore in 1933

Revising the Raj. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Representations of digits from the ninth century, 11th century and the present day

Digital revolution: the evolution of Hindu-Arabic numerals

How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics redefined Japan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medal winners on a podium

Q&AWho won the first Olympic medal? And what was the prize before that?

Mao Zedong applauds a parade of Red Guards in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. These young militants followed Mao’s call in early August 1966 to defend the party from a ‘white terror’. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Reign of the red terror: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tokyo Olympics 1964: Yoshinori Sakai prepares to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony. Born on the day that the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, he was a symbol of Japan’s postwar reconstruction and peace

Tokyo Olympics 1964: the Games that defined Japan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kurdish fighters in north-west Iran, 1918

The history of the Kurds in Iraq: "the largest people never to have achieved statehood". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The untold story of India’s WW2 prisoners of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Samurai: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWhy do we say ‘white elephant’?

Charles Sobhraj (centre) pictured in 2011, while trying to sue the Nepalese government for unlawful imprisonment

The real history of The Serpent: the true story of Charles Sobhraj

Voices of China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US marines advance up Iwo Jima's beaches

Second World War

The battle for Iwo Jima: why did it happen and why was it so hard fought?

Chaos & communism: China’s 1949 revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Persian empire: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria: how and why did she become Empress of India?

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

Victoria the warrior queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean War

Victorians and war: which conflicts were fought during the Victorian era?

How historians helped build the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The city Bhaktapur looming over the Kathmandu valley

The hippy trail: a pan-Asian journey through history

Muslim women embrace after Ramadan ends, 2012

"Does every generation have to prove itself in Britain?" Kavita Puri on the experiences of South Asians in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Was the 1990s a golden age for British South Asians?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An East India Company official riding on an elephant

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

Michael WoodThe story of China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.