カテゴリー: History
Pitcairn Register details lives of ‘extraordinarily resilient’ Tahitian women enslaved during notorious mutinyIt is a book that records the 19th-century descendants of some of the most notorious troublemakers in naval history: the sailors responsible f…
Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrationsRare footage of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student…
Paleographer, historian and expert on ancient Chinese writingQiu Xigui, who has died aged 89, first made his mark as a paleographer, a scholar of ancient writing, through researching Chinese “oracle bones”. These are divinations inscribed on animal sca…
Cliff Southcombe and Marianne Hood believe it is time to foster a greater understanding of the British empire and its impactFew in the UK are aware of one of the most egregious historical structures built in the name of colonial profit: the Great Hedge…
Beijing is believed to be behind court bid to secure account of life inside Communist HQIn the early hours of 4 June 1989, Li Rui, a veteran of the Chinese Communist party (CCP), was standing on the balcony of his apartment on Chang’an Boulevard in cen…
References to Muslim rulers, deadly riots connected to PM and Gandhi’s dislike of Hindu nationalism removedThe Indian government has been accused of rewriting history to fit its Hindu nationalist agenda after school textbooks were edited to remove refe…
The events of 1947 and their impact are clearly part and parcel of British history, writes Professor Sarah Ansari In view of the forthcoming 74th anniversary of the partition that accompanied independence in British-controlled South Asia, the call for …
My grandfather Ziauddin Shakeb, who has died aged 87 of pulmonary oedema, was a historian of Indo-Persian relations and a world-renowned expert on Persian and Arabic manuscripts, working as a consultant at Christie’s auction house in London for 30 year…
John Munro on his slave-owning ancestor, Martin Wright on corporate irresponsibility in India, Peter McKenna on class awareness, Jane Darling on black and white history, Brian Keegan on anti-Irish racism, Dorothy Chang on ‘yellow history’ and Barbara H…