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Women may be largely absent from traditional accounts of the Mongol conquests, but they played a crucial role in creating the largest of all land empires.
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In this episode we travel to the summer of 1947 to witness the chaotic, catastrophic sequence of events surrounding Indian independence and the subsequent Partition.
Four historians consider the desirability of profound political change and the methods used to attain it.
The late-medieval papal chapel was a powerful jewel in the papal tiara.
The relationship between France, Germany and Britain is at the heart of the European story. Three historical figures embody it.