Asia

Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama

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The Last Kamikazes

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

My favourite place: Jaipur, India

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An Athenian red-figure kylix (cup) dating from around 510–500 BC depicts a young pentathlete pulling his older lover towards him for a kiss. In many of the city-states of ancient Greece, sex between a man and a youth was an accepted – even idealised – form of love, its virtues extolled in works by writers including Plato. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

General ancient history

Pride and prejudice: same-sex relations through history

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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

Have nuclear weapons helped to maintain global peace?

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

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D6XD6R Amber Fort - landscape with elephants on the Jaleb Chowk courtyard and main gate of Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

My favourite place: Jaipur

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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

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

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Second World War

China in World War Two

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Living through Partition

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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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