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From birdsong to window-tapping professionals to bleeping symphonies, morning alarms have come a long way.
Scholars who study dangerous speech have identified common themes that can lead to violence.
Australian cheese was once ‘vintage’ or ‘tasty’. Now we have a plethora of options. How did we get here?
50 years ago Art News published Linda Nochlin’s essay, Why have there been no great women artists? It would change how we see art and its institutions, and still reverberates today.
For hundreds of years, magicians believed cheese could help them foretell the future or identify a criminal.
Who is writing history affects how it is written.
20th-century fad diets didn’t look all that different from those popular today.
Good Europeans are not always where you expect to find them.
With protection underfoot and ventilation on top, the thong is the perfect summer shoe for Australian conditions. Pity it’s not really Australian.
The Christmas holidays can sometimes feel a little unhealthy but the ingredients that makeup a Christmas pudding are pretty nutritious.
At a time when history is so contested, the gift of the Uluru Statement is that it provides a basis for redefining — and retelling the stories of — the nation.
Netflix is making a live action series based on Assassin’s Creed. With its promise of endless return and varied historical settings, the game has been an enduring success.
The young woman stands accused of trivialising history but perhaps a more nuanced debate is needed.
A campaign to change the name of a road in London’s ‘Little India’‘ has succeeded. While some members of the local Sikh population welcome it, others aren’t so happy.
Medicine’s linguistic history in English is rich indeed, peppered with borrowings from French. But the Old English renderings retain a certain charm.
The slave revolt in Berbice, modern-day Guyana, was unusual for its length and near success. So why are so few of the revolt’s documents in the Caribbean nation’s archives?
Centred around a Blues Party in London, the second film from the Small Axe anthology captured the excitement of setting up a party but missed things about sound system culture in the UK.
It will always be too early, depending on who you ask, so put up your decorations whenever you want if it makes you happy.
In 1967 a Mexican reporter told the CIA he had met Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City just before the JFK assassination. New research and recently declassified intelligence pokes a hole in his story.
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