For him the story of the tank and the story of the Chinese Labour Corps are inseparable. So in the first World War this is the most high tech, most complicated piece of machinery on the battlefield.

The umbrella on display was given to Lieutenant Thomas Walsh, at the end of World War I, by members of the Chinese Labour Corps, who worked in northern France helping Britain and France in the war ...

By Sean Graham This week, I’m joined by Dan Black, author of Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia. We talk about the ship’s earliest voyage following ...