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A British officer stands alongside two of his Japanese counterparts in 1914 in Tsingtao (now Qingdao). Japanese troops played a key role in the capture of that strategic German concession in north-east China. (Photo by Getty Images)
First World War

First World War: beyond the western front

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
General Modern

The big question: should museums return their treasures?

A c1860 depiction of Wentworth Works steel manufacturer in Sheffield
Victorian

Why Britain punched above its weight

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A young visitor looks at a painting depicting the Amritsar Massacre
20th Century

Amritsar: day of shame

A memorial tomb to King Æthelstan, the first Saxon king of all England, in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. (Photo by Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images)
Anglo-Saxon

A brief history of England

A First World War silk screened poster c1918 showing a frightening German soldier holding a bloodied bayonet. Caption reads: "Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds". (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
First World War

Why did the Allies call Germans ‘Huns’ during World War I?

Daniele Manin proclaiming the Republic of Venice, 22 March 1848. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images)
Victorian

1848: the year of revolutions

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), author of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
General Modern

The decline and fall of the British Empire

The repulse of a sortie during the Siege of Delhi, a conflict of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The rebels advance on a British battery, who repel them with swords, bayonets and rifles. A lithograph by E. Walker, after a drawing by Captain G. F. Atkinson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Victorian

The myth of native-bashing

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