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A fragment from the 'Alexander Mosaic', c100 BC, showing Alexander the Great in battle against the Persian king Darius III. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

6 things you (probably) didn’t know about Alexander the Great

Based at UCLA, historian and geographer Jared Diamond has published a number of bestselling books, including 'The Third Chimpanzee' (1991), the Pulitze-winning 'Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies' (1997), 'Collapse' (2005) and 'The World Until Yesterday' (2012). (Photo by Tom M Johnson)

Books interview with Jared Diamond: “With countries, as with people, crises attract attention”

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The lion and the rising sun: Britain and Japan’s 400-year relationship

Two American soldiers wait for the second wave of combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division during Operation Pershing during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War defined America in the second half of the 20th century. (Photo by Patrick Christain/Getty Images)

7 things you might not know about the Vietnam War

Amritsar massacre. (Photo by Alamy)

The Amritsar assassin

Anita Anand, photographed in London. "My grandfather was in Amritsar on the day of the massacre. This story has been woven into my DNA," she says. (Photography by Alastair Levy)

Books interview with Anita Anand: “Singh hoped that he would be the catalyst for a revolution”

Marble bust of Emperor Caligula. (DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The 8 bloodiest Roman emperors in history

World Histories Magazine issue 15

Issue 15 of BBC World Histories is out now

Passengers reading a newspaper while waiting to disembark from the 'Empire Windrush' at Tilbury, having sailed from Jamaica, taken by an unknown photographer for the Daily Herald newspaper, 21 June 1948. "The Windrush scandal would have been inconceivable if we knew that those we are deporting not only helped to build the welfare state but were either born as, or to subjects of, the British state", says Professor Kehinde Andrews. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

Do we need to decolonise history? And if so, how?

A painting of the Amritsar massacre. While Churchill described the killings as "without precedent", MP Benjamin Spoor said: "Amritsar is not an isolated event, any more than General Dyer is an isolated officer." (Photo by AKG Images)

The Library The Amritsar massacre: the British empire’s darkest day

Four soliders of the 36th Sikhs, various ranks, 1896. The regiment was led in January 1897 to occupy the Samana posts, says Captain Jay Singh-Sohal. (Reproduced with permission from australiansikhheritage.com)

The battle of Saragarhi: when 21 Sikh soldiers stood against 10,000 men

Atomic bomb damage in the city of Hiroshima, 1945. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 “razed and burnt around 70 per cent of all buildings”, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War? You debate

‘Inkhorn’ was the term for an inkwell made out of a small horn and became a nickname for the new words being created by playwrights and poets, such as William Shakespeare. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

The evolution of the English language

A Genghis Khan statue in the Genghis Khan exhibit on Feb. 21, 2013 at the Field Museum in Chicago. The exhibit showcases the largest single collection of 13th century Mongolian artifacts and educates visitors on Khan's empire. (Heather Charles/ Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images)

The brutal brilliance of Genghis Khan