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The ability of Jinnah to unite a series of political expediencies with the popular appeal of Islam to demand a separate state for the Muslim people, has brought him the accolade 'the founder of Pakistan'. |
At the height of the Roman Empire, hundreds of merchant ships left Egypt every year to voyage through the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean, exchanging the produce of the Mediterranean for exotic eastern commodities. Raoul McLaughlin traces their pioneering journeys. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 8, 2010
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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 4th, 1959.
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This year sees a remarkable coincidence of anniversaries that tell the history of modern China. Some will be celebrated by the authorities on a grand scale, others will be wilfully ignored, but all reveal important aspects of the country’s past, as Jonathan Fenby explains. |
June 31st, 1959 - Richard Cavendish remembers how a former-British colony gained a long-serving leader. Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 6
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As springtime arrives in Japan, Matthew Knott looks at the history of the country’s love affair with the cherry blossom.
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The Mongolian past has been drawn by both sides into twentieth-century disputes between Russia and China, writes J.J. Saunders. Published in History Today, 2008
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At the end of the Second Opium War, the Chinese government signed treaties with the French and British, which provided more ports for Western use and allowed missionaries and foreign envoys to travel to China. |
Historian and film-maker Michael Wood recently visited Bristol Grammar School to talk about the BBC2 series The Story of India. Before the event began he was interviewed by sixth-form students Imogen Parkes and Nicholas Barrett; Oliver Chard transcribed the tape.
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Charlotte Crow describes how a recent visit to India on the 150th anniversary of the Indian Mutiny became a flashpoint for Indians and Britons over the commemoration by the two nations.
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Fraser Newham finds a connection running from the East India Company’s first mission to Tibet to the completion of the Golmud to Lhasa railway by the Chinese today. |
Robert Bud says we should remember the Asian flu epidemic of 1957 as a turning point in the history of antibiotics. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of February 18th, 1405 |
Ben Kiernan points out the progress, and difficulties, in recovering history and justice after genocide. |
Denis Judd takes stock of current arguments as to the effect of British rule in India and other countries of the Empire.
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