Asia

Zainab Bahrani on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

General ancient history

Ancient Babylon: everything you wanted to know

Chess players in the 14th century

General ancient history

Ancient board games: which ones did people play for fun in the past?

Ed Caesar on the HistoryExtra podcast.

An extraordinary Everest adventure

Margaret MacMillan is professor of History at the University of Toronto and an emeritus professor of International History at Oxford University. (Photo by Getty Images)

War and society: a tangled relationship

An RAF crew with their American Douglas Boston light bomber, circa 1943. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Personal stories of the Second World War

Richard M Eaton on the HistoryExtra podcast (Image by Getty Images)

A new take on India’s history

Sculpture dedicated to king Leonidas of the Spartans in Thermopylae, Greece.

Sparta

Priya Atwal on the HistoryExtra podcast. The Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar

The rise and fall of the Sikh empire

Chris Harding answers questions on the history of Japan

The history of Japan: everything you wanted to know

Young girl putting garland around Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Getty Images)

History hero My history hero: Fergal Keane chooses Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)

Empire builder Maharajah Ranjit Singh sits astride a horse as an attendant holds a parasol over him. Singh is historically credited with growing his ancestral warrior-clan, the Sukerchakia misl, into a grand imperial dynasty. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

A Sikh tragedy: the Indian kingdom that fell foul of the British empire

An official of the British East India Company riding on an elephant with an escort of foot soldiers and mounted Indian retainers, India, end of 18th century (Photo by Getty Images)

The East India Company: everything you wanted to know

A group of American soldiers captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Java, 1942 (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Prisoners of the Japanese

Barry Cunliffe

General ancient history

Scythians: Warrior Nomads of the Steppe

Anita Anand (Image by Sukhi Dhanda).

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