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A polarising poltergeist sowed division in 18th-century England. 

One of Buddhism’s most reviled villains was crucified in the Buddhist underworld. When French Christians arrived in Siam in the 17th century, venerating images of Christ on the cross, dialogue between the two religions reached an impasse.

As the age of revolutions swept across Europe, the Pacific also witnessed dramatic changes when monarchies were rebuilt and societies transformed. 

Throughout the centuries countless libraries and carefully curated book collections have been dispersed, destroyed or lost. 

Tall tales of Pompeii’s lost lives form part of a long history of sensationalism. 

Signed at the height of the Second World War, the Atlantic Charter set out the terms for the decolonisation of French North Africa.

The correspondence between Mary Hamilton and the future George IV is often seen as evidence of a harmless crush in the Georgian court. It was nothing of the sort. 

Mao Zedong once said that Taiwan should be independent, but the Chinese Communist Party has since changed its mind on the ‘renegade province’. How Chinese is Taiwan?

In the decades before the First World War, Polish mountaineering became a form of nationalism for a lowland people.