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Tall straight teak trees in Ton Sak Yai National Park, with a winding wooden walkway across a green lawn and sunlight through the leaves

Lanna and Britain: Teak, Treaties and Burma Next Door

24 October 2026 Culture

Lanna and Britain: teak, the rupee and two Chiang Mai treaties, once British Burma became Lanna's neighbour. Follow a log to the sawmill an…

The Mekong at Chiang Khong, with long-tail boats moored along a sandy bank and a thatched shelter; across the river, the Lao town of Huay Xai on a hillside

Lanna and France: 1893 and the Mekong

24 October 2026 Culture

Lanna and France: how the Mekong became a border, from the 1893 Paknam crisis to the 1904 line drawn beside Nan, with a map to step through…

The wide Mekong in morning mist at Chiang Saen, with a sandbar, a small boat and a large tree on the bank, forest on the far shore

Lanna and Ming China: Envoys, Elephants and the Yunnan Road

24 October 2026 Culture

Lanna and Ming China in the Ming court records: elephants sent to Yunnan for 120 years, seals and tallies, the 1405 clash and the last miss…

A golden bell-shaped chedi and several white reliquaries at Wat Suan Dok, Chiang Mai, standing in a row on a lawn under a cloudy sky

Lanna and Sri Lanka: The Road of Buddhism

24 October 2026 Culture

Lanna and Sri Lanka never fought or traded much, yet Buddhism tied them together. Follow monks, scriptures and a bodhi tree from Lanka to C…

A gold-ground folding-screen painting from the 17th century of a large Japanese trading junk with green and white sails, its deck full of sailors, riding the waves

Lanna and Japan: From Trade Ships to 1941

24 October 2026 Culture

How did Lanna and Japan meet? From trade ships and the Japanese village at Ayutthaya to Japanese troops in the North in 1941–45 and the mem…

An oil painting of several Portuguese carracks under full sail on a choppy sea near a steep rocky coast

Lanna and the Portuguese: Mercenaries and Guns

24 October 2026 Culture

Lanna and the Portuguese met through war and firearms. See how guns reached Lanna by two roads, overland from China and by sea with Portugu…

The three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple in Dali, Yunnan, their white spires rising above green trees with mountains and a blue sky behind

Lanna and the Mongols: The 1253 Shock and Chiang Mai

24 October 2026 Culture

Lanna and the Mongols: from the fall of Dali in 1253 to a failed 20,000-man Yuan campaign, then envoys and gifts. The Yuan record read besi…

The Mekong at Luang Prabang in the late afternoon, long wooden boats moored at the bank, dark green hills in the distance and grey rain clouds filling the sky

Lanna and Đại Việt: The War of 1479–80

24 October 2026 Culture

Lanna and Đại Việt: in 1479–80 Lê Thánh Tông's army invaded Lan Xang and reached Nan. The same war in Chinese, Lanna, Lao and Vietnamese re…

The stupa of Wat Chet Yot in Chiang Mai, a square brick building decorated with stucco deities and topped by several spires, among tall trees under a blue sky

Lanna and the World: Human History and Lanna's Place in It

24 October 2026 Culture

Lanna and the World sets Lanna on one timeline with all of human history, from 300,000 years ago to today: who was where in the same year, …

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