India

A vintage photograph showing an unknown man standing behind a stall selling lemonade, root beer and ice cream – among other things.

Q&A Who invented lemonade?

The history of maritime travel could explain why we use the word 'posh' for the British upper classes. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)

Q&A Where does the word ‘posh’ come from?

A British sergeant measure the chest sizes of Indian men

Second World War

Books interview with Yasmin Khan: “By the end of the war, few people in the Raj believed it could continue to exist”

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India at war and mining accidents

Lion Capital of the Pillars of Ashoka from Sarnath. (iStock / Getty Images Plus)

The many lives of India

First World War

The history of India and a terrible explosion

Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi

India: a land of contradictions

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£3 in my pocket: the pioneering migrants who came to 1950s Britain from India

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My history hero: Khudadad Khan (1888-1971)

An illustration depicting the battle of Naseby, arguably one of the most significant land battles in British history. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

20 battles that shaped Britain

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Ye olde travel guide: Calcutta 1905

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Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj

Crown Prince Olav on his ice yacht on Stora Värtan, Sweden, c1938. (Getty Images)

“In my spare time I win Olympic golds”

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Second World War

Burma 1942: The Road from Rangoon to Mandalay

Chris Patten, the last governor of colonial Hong Kong, is pictured here receiving the Union Jack flag shortly before Hong Kong was returned to China, ending over a century of British rule. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

The British empire: 10 big questions