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Du Fu: China’s greatest poet . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ships in battle on the sea

General Early Modern

When pirates ruled Asia’s waves

Swathes of Tokyo lie in ruins after the Great Kantō Earthquake on 1 September 1923

The Great Kantō earthquake: a 1923 disaster that left Tokyo in ruins

Joya Chatterji, emeritus professor in the history of modern south Asia at the University of Cambridge (Photo by Abhishek Bali)

Joya Chatterji on 20th-century south Asia “The nation is a very novel idea, and imposing it on millions of people is hard work”

A c1943 photograph of USS Indianapolis. Built in New Jersey, the Portland-class heavy cruiser was launched in 1931 (Photo by US Navy/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Second World War

Into the jaws of hell: the WW2 sinking of USS Indianapolis

A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945, a bombed-out building in the foreground

Second World War

What happened to Hiroshima after it was bombed in 1945? How many people died?

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Historian Simon Schama, 2015 (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Simon Schama “Humans are a marvel of ingenuity, yet we seem to exist in this great pond of primitive terror and paranoia” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1950s illustration imagines a group of mountaineers catching sight of a large Yeti in the Himalayas

General History

The hunt for the Abominable Snowman: what’s the history of the Yeti legend?

Junko Tabei and Ang Tsering pictured on the slopes of Everest

Q&A Who was the first woman to climb Everest?

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, born the son of a humble yak farmer, pictured around the time of his Everest triumph of 1953 (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Tenzing Norgay The Sherpa who first conquered the world's highest mountain

A photograph of Tenzing Norgay (left) and Edmund Hillary, sharing a smile in 1953, shortly after scaling Everest.

Everest The story of the race to the top of the world

Genghis Khan’s tent, as shown in a 14th-century Persian miniature. The Mongols’ conquests transformed the way the people of Eurasia did trade, shared knowledge, paid taxes and fought wars (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

What was life like under the Mongol empire?

Thousands of Muslims gather in India in 2019 to offer Eid prayers, marking end of holy month of Ramadan

General ancient history

A brief history of Ramadan

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Women's history podcast episodes