Asia

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Second World War

China in World War Two

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Living through Partition

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

My favourite place: Vietnam

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The lost objects of South Asia

West Berlin inhabitants wave at the newly erected Berlin Wall, 1961. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

What brought a thaw in the Cold War?

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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)

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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

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Silence: the history behind Martin Scorsese’s new film

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History quiz – Anglo-Saxons, Bright’s disease and the Byzantine army

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History quiz – spacewalks, battles and Eleanor of Aquitaine

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

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Yangguan Museum and a statue of Zhang Qian. (Getty Images)

Global encounters of the ancient kind

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British soldiers arrive to take part in the battle of France, 1940. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Second World War

Books interview with Daniel Todman: “Everything that happened in 1940 isn’t somehow down to Winston Churchill”

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A group of Sadhu holy men at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, one of the most sacred Hindu temples in Nepal. (Photo by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Kathmandu, Nepal

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