How Columbus, of all people, became a national symbol
An anthropologist tells the story of how Columbus actually came close to falling into historical obscurity, until American hubris got in the way.
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Forget Jon Snow, watch the young women to find out how Game of Thrones ends
All men must die, so the young women have grown up to take control.
Queens behaving badly: three ways fact is more interesting than Game of Thrones fiction
They are too well-behaved on Westeros – real-life queens often resorted to tears, temper tantrums and toilet humour.
Techniques of 19th-century fake news reporter teach us why we fall for it today
Theodor Fontane was a German newspaper's England correspondent – who reported 'from' London without leaving his Berlin desk.
Solidarity was a founding principle of European unity – it must remain so
Sixty years since the Treaty of Rome was signed, the EU goal still remains clear: peace.
Donald Trump is no Mussolini, but liberal democracy could still be in danger
Two Italian scholars who fled fascism in the 1920s urgently warned that American democracy was vulnerable to the same gradual erosion as in Italy. Their message still rings true today.
Could razing Hitler’s first home backfire?
In the past, demolishing the dictator's residences created a void exploited by Nazi sympathizers.
Britain and Europe: a long history of conflict and cooperation
British history is deeply connected to Europe and whatever the result of its referendum, this will continue.
Betrayal and guilt: past and future collide in Easter Rising commemorations
Often it has been Ireland’s writers and artists that have called out the hopes and failures of national politics, holding the polity to account in the culture.
The man whose words brought down the Berlin Wall was far from a bumbling fool
Günter Schabowski's press conference in November 1989 helped trigger the collapse of the Berlin wall. Was it really as much of an accident as we like to think?
Witches of Westeros: using and subverting the witch trope in Game of Thrones
While Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin openly draws on medieval and early modern history in the worlds of his books, his subversive depictions of witchcraft make his female characters both intriguing and powerful.
Stalagmites preserve 3,000 years of northern hemisphere climate
Stalagmites in Scottish preserve 3,000 years of climate history, suggesting human migration is linked to wet and dry periods.
Why we are still living with the legacy of Waterloo – that ‘most bloody battle’
From Belgium to Moscow to Helmland: how one battle helped shape how we think of war.
Russia still struggles with a violent past, 70 years after the defeat of Nazism
Victory over Nazi Germany is one unambiguously positive accomplishment of the 20th century; and yet, constructing a positive narrative about the Soviet second world war has proven hard – largely because there are some stubborn facts to contend with.
German experience in Australia during WW1 damaged road to multiculturalism
The story of the German–Australian community offers an alternative view of Australia’s history as a nation.
Neolithic bling provides clues to spread of farming in Europe
Studying beads, shells and animal teeth – ornaments which carried deep cultural meaning to prehistoric man – reveals that northern Europeans resisted the spread of agriculture for centuries.
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Associate Professor, Connected Waters Initiative, UNSW
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Research Fellow, Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, City, University of London
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Professor of History, University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor, History Department; Campus Coordinator for the American Democracy Project, California State University San Marcos
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Adjunct Professor of German and European Studies, UNSW
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Researcher at the Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, New York University
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Professor of Medieval Literature and English Literature, Bangor University
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