The milestones take in the so-called ‘golden era’ pursued by David Cameron, who cosied up to his counterpart Xi Jinping, through to the stark warnings about cyber-attacks issued by the UK security agencies. The Duke of York is also featured through his dealings with a businessman who was named as an alleged Chinese spy.

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old.