A clash of empires

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

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

KINGDOM OF SAXONY 16-19 OCTOBER 1813

A parallel history of Churchill and de Gaulle

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