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The Cultural Revolution Kim Gordon (front) in Beijing in the mid-1960s, before his family was detained by the authorities. He sp ...

In 1965, Kim Gordon and his parents moved from Britain to China to see communism for themselves. At first, it was a time of ...

When Apollo 11 touched down on the moon in July 1969, Kim Gordon was one of the few British schoolboys who knew nothing about it ...

ER IC G OR DO N/ BR ID GE M AN /G ET TY IM AG ES A propaganda poster bearing the slogan “We Are Chairman Mao’s Little Red Guards ...

The Cultural Revolution Cultural artefacts Kim’s wallet, decorated with pro-Mao slogans and featuring his one-way ticket to Cant ...

In the autumn of 1967, the surge of nationalist feeling powering the Cultural Revolution turned against foreign “enemies”. Kim’s ...

Monica Whitlock is a writer, broadcaster and producer who works for BBC World Service LISTEN Monica Whitlock explores Kim Gordon ...

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E mily Soldene started her improbably varied career in the music halls, where she became a leading lady, producer, director and ...

GE TT Y^ IM AG ES /D RE AM ST IM E drove a Cobb & Co coach through the Australian outback. The French-American doctor Cornel ...

the time, it focused on society’s sexual hypocrisy, arguing that “woman is not more chaste than man” and should not take the bla ...

Martin Sixsmith discusses the Cold War in a broader context, including how music, art and NOYGTG manipulated Mark White p ...

called Success, where the uprising began. The second character is John Smith, a white missionary from Britain, who found himself ...

Thomas Harding is a bestselling author and journalist. His books include The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany (Penguin Rand ...

careful planning and coordination. There were various meetings to decide on tactics, and it was clear from the beginning that th ...

OR IO N^ BO OK S The Demerara uprising (depicted here in a sanitised version of events by colonist Joshua Bryant) breathed new l ...

B O O K S R E V IE W S Battle of wills MARK WHITE commends a wide-ranging investigation into the psychological dimensions of the ...

Another admirable feature of the book is the consideration of the British angle so as to shed additional light on the Cold W ...

B O O K S R E V IE W S The Greek Revolution by Mark Mazower Allen Lane, 6 08 pages, £30 In March 1821, Antonios Oikonomou a sea ...