Electric vehicles were around long before their fossil fuel rivals. They are also set to outlast them because of advantages their advocates noted as early as a century ago.
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Just like in Westeros, the fates of royal dynasties from history have been shaped by illness and affliction.
This change comes after centuries of discrimination against illegitimacy.
The Kimono is a distinct cultural symbol of Japan and for that reason, it has a complicated reputation around much of Asia.
Indigenous oral history is more than a methodology. It is living history, practised for thousands of millennia, intrinsically woven into Aboriginal people’s way of life and culture.
Jay Carmichael’s novel explores how Australian same-sex attracted men lived during the repressive period after the end of the second world war. But does it impose present concerns on the past?
Economic inequality during the Dutch East Indies era varied radically, depending on where you look. What made the income distribution different from one region to another?
There is not a single historian, publisher or archivist on the review panels whose feedback will help shape Australia’s new cultural policy
Housing standards in Australia have slipped behind the rest of the world. But momentum is growing to revive past ambitions to build the best homes we can.
Gaiman’s dream goes by many names, each inspired by different ideas of what dreams and nightmares have been to people throughout history.
As material objects, diaries give scholars an intimate look into their subjects’ lives, including handwriting and mementos. What if diaries in the future are nothing but insubstantial digital ghosts?
Selby Wynn Schwartz’s inventive, poetic reimagining of lives like those of Virginia Woolf and Sarah Bernhardt – against a backdrop of Sappho – has just been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
A mix of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages that kept people cool in the past.
The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ability to modify their behavior based on experience.
Said to have been the first person to put his own head on a coin, Demetrius the Besieger is known for siege warfare, sacrilege, and extravagance.
Nottingham was once two towns divided by a wall in Market Square.
From sharing books to keeping a lock of your intended’s hair, why not try finding love the Georgian way?
The idea that Europeans brought new diseases to the Americas and returned home with others has been widely accepted. But evidence is mounting that for syphilis this scenario is wrong.
The storming of the presidential palace in Sri Lanka is a moment of powerful symbolism – one with many historical precedents.
The Russian president might claim to be confronting hate speech, but he is drawing on the ideas of anti-Semitic extremists
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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