Between 1949 and 1966 the Communist state co-opted the medium for propaganda, and publishing of lianhuanhua boomed. New ...
Helen Castor is author of The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (Allen Lane) ...
It was notable that when Iran decided – unusually – to flex some hard power towards Israel in April 2024, a number of key ...
There is another figure whose role in the second Viking Age was equally pivotal: Thorkell the Tall. Arguably the most ...
The man known as Henry Pu Yi led one of the strangest lives of the 20th century. The last of the Manchu emperors, he succeeded to the throne as a boy of two in 1908. Three years later a revolution ...
Nile Green is Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA and author of Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah (W.W. Norton) In the mid-1500s, the ...
Peter the Great’s decision to join the Great Northern War when he did appeared to be a catastrophic mistake. Like many of his predecessors, the Tsar was determined to gain access to the Baltic. His ...
The original Crystal Palace was the centrepiece of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Built in what is now Kensington Gardens, it was an astonishing prefabricated construction, created on ...
Every September two friends and I go on pilgrimage. They are both pretty devout – one is a priest. I am indulged as a wistful agnostic. Growing enthusiasm for the Camino de Santiago over recent ...