Refugees in Vietnam

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Michael WoodThe story of China.

Qing dynasty emperor Kangxi

The voices of China: 5 perspectives on an extraordinary past.

Japan and the west.

Imperialism on the oceans.

Ancient Babylon: everything you wanted to know.

Chess players in the 14th century

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

Ed Caesar on the HistoryExtra podcast.

An extraordinary Everest adventure.

War and society: a tangled relationship.

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

Personal stories of the Second World War.

A new take on India’s history.

Sparta.

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 heroFergal 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)

Prisoners of the Japanese.

Scythians: Warrior Nomads of the Steppe.

Exclusive podcastAnita Anand on an orphan radicalised by the Amritsar massacre.

WW2 surrender signed, 2 September 1945

Second World War

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Selim I

The extraordinary life of Sultan Selim I.

The tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, built at Saqqara

Timeline: the evolution of ancient empires.

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan: the Mongol warlord who almost conquered the world

Hiroshima.

Second World War

The end of WW2: 5 articles you can read right now

Illustration of Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels along the Silk Road to China

General ancient history

Your guide to...the Silk Road

A thin section of the Great Wall of China near Beijing

General ancient history

10 facts about the Great Wall of China

Ancient Greece: everything you wanted to know.

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #15: What's lurking in the background of medieval maps? And what did medieval people really know about the wider world?.

The battle of First Bar, 1841

Your guide to...the Opium Wars

Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

From Winston Churchill to the Bengal famine: are we in denial about our role in WW2?