Refugees in Vietnam

Asia

In pictures: The Terracotta Warriors

The World Cup story

The Spanish Flu pandemic

Uncovering China's Terracotta Army

Chinese terracotta soldiers

Terracotta Army: secrets from the grave

Mahatma Gandhi in Britain

Gandhi in Britain

Living with the oceans

Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama

The Last Kamikazes

Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Jaipur, India

Indian princes and British Army officers in the Hyderabad contingent polo team, c1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cricket, curry and cups of tea: India's influence on Victorian Britain

My favourite place: Jaipur

A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The bloody road to partition: 8 landmark moments in the turbulent story

A Calcutta pavement, c1961

After Partition: colony politics and the rise of communism in Bengal

China in World War Two

Living through Partition

View of Halong Bay taken from the top of an island. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Vietnam

The lost objects of South Asia

Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto and a mountain in the background

ExploreKyoto: Japan’s city of gardens and geishas

John Buckley and James Holland next to a fighter plane at the Imperial Museum, London

Second World War

The War in the West: James Holland in conversation

Armoured cars unloaded in Shanghai in 1927

China’s public image war

Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, a PPP candidate (Pakistan People's Party), campaigning from the sun roof of a car. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007)

Pamir Mountains - know as Bam-i-dunya, 'Roof of the World'

In the footsteps of Alexander Gardner, a Victorian adventurer who travelled to the Hindu Kush

Tom Holland in conversation with Pankaj Mishra about his book Age of Anger

Age of Anger: Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Tom Holland

The Tibetan plateau lies at an altitude averaging over 4,500 metres above sea level

In the footsteps of Sir Francis Younghusband's 1903 invasion of Tibet

Bombay, the East India Company's port on the Malabar Coast of India, 1755. Company trading vessels are depicted in the foreground and quayside warehouses and buildings behind. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The chaotic conquest of India

Silence: the history behind Martin Scorsese’s new film

Matthew Perry Entertaining Japanese Commissioners on Ship

What happened when US Commodore Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay?

Two men carrying old woman as they migrate, following the Partition of India in 1947

10 historical turning points for modern India

Young women working in a textile mill in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1943

Famine and freedom: how the Second World War ignited India