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

WATCHING THE RECENT SPECTACLE OF THOSE latter-day emperors President Xi of China and India’s Narendra Modi hugging each other at the summit in Tianjin, my mind cast back to an earlier image of a pan-A

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

324 CE CONSTANTINOPLE FOUNDED Constantine selects Byzantium as ...

LETTER OF THE MONTH THAT’S GOLD, JERRY! Your ...