India’s iron lady

How the Qin forged a great power from the fragments of the Warring States

At private dinners with family and confidants, the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto, often speaks admiringly of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, say

WHAT are we doing here, Mum?” Navleen demanded. She gazed at the statues looming down at her from their plinths in London’s Parliament Square. It was half term and her mother, Simrat, had decided that

Sarkozy behind bars: the conviction dividing France ...

I REMEMBER LOOKING IN THE BBC ARCHIVES for stories of the first arrivals of South Asians in the postwar years, and being surprised at how little programming had been made documenting the experiences o

Edward VII swept away the cobwebs of mid-Victorian style, Queen Mary had passion for all things small and the Queen Mother bought rather avant-garde art. In a forthcoming talk, Tim Knox, director of the Royal Collection, charts a century of regal taste