China

Illustration of Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels along the Silk Road to China

General ancient history

Your guide to... the Silk Road

A thin section of the Great Wall of China near Beijing

General ancient history

10 facts about the Great Wall of China

The battle of First Bar, 1841

Your guide to... the Opium Wars

A view of Mount Everest

Mystery on Everest: did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit in 1924?

Postcards from the past competition

Postcards from the past: Aged between 6–13? Enter our exciting lockdown competition

The figure Mulan on a silk print, c19th century

General ancient history

Mulan: the history of the Chinese legend behind the film

Premium

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Premium

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: a historical perspective . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Immigrant children are examined by a city health officer upon arrival at the battery from Ellis Island during a Typhus scare, c1911. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

A short history of quarantine

Premium

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators's visit to Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

Dictators explained . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini give a fascist salute

A dictator’s death: how Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other self-styled strongmen met their ends

Premium

Chinese propaganda poster, c1969. (Photo by Getty images)

Maoism . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Maoism

Julia Lovell’s Maoism: A Global History wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

Simon the cat

10 top cats in history

Engraving depicting Chinese opium smokers in a saloon

What caused the First Opium War?