China’s bid for an infrastructure blitz to drive overland trade through to Europe will end up being overshadowed.
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Early Vikings wouldn’t understand nationalism – the secret to their success was to embrace other cultures.
The Korean peninsula has a lengthy history of exchanging insults.
Historically, there have been numerous cultural manifestations of austerity that shed light on its enduring appeal.
Histories of the North Atlantic have had a preponderant influence on scholarship about race. But, for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who study southern Africa, this is changing.
The egalitarian myth behind the great Australian dream of home ownership is at odds with the first rules of land granting in the colonies. Even then, property ownership depended on wealth and status.
While today we sweat, early modern Europeans froze. Furs to the rescue.
Australians boast of our warrior participation in every major war since 1899, and in every modern Olympiad since 1896.
In 1825, more than 130 Cornish miners and engineers landed in Mexico to work in the silver mines. Their legacy lives on.
The CRISPR gene-editing technique raises new questions about how we measure time and conceptualise history. Here, a cultural theorist takes on the philosophical side of this scientific breakthrough.
The 1954 defection of West Germany’s first domestic spy chief and ardent anti-Nazi rocked the world – and then he returned to Bonn.
The story behind the marathon is more complicated than it seems.
Displaying Confederate statues in a carefully curated museum would help end a toxic debate about the difference between remembering and venerating.
Should they stay or should they go?
As India celebrates its independence, the flag is on full display, but few people know about the complex origins of this ubiquitous national symbol.
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it’s better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
The sun was worshiped as a deity in many cultures – and witnessing it get extinguished could be a particularly terrifying event.
Today the phrase ‘all roads leads to Rome’ means that there’s more than one way to reach the same goal. But in Ancient Rome, all roads really did lead to the eternal city, which was at the centre of a vast road network.
Over the past 100 years, discarded and secondhand goods have been used by artists to reject mainstream aesthetics.
The Russian cyberthreat goes back over three decades, extends into the country’s educational systems and criminal worlds, and shows no signs of letting up.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Research assistant, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Historian, Australian Catholic University
