Ground-penetrating radar located the remains of 215 First Nations children in a mass unmarked grave, revealing a macabre part of Canada’s hidden history.
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The Canadian response to racism south of the border can be described as an Americanization of Canadian history.
Chinese people have been in New Zealand for over 180 years, but their remarkable story will remain widely unknown if it isn’t taught in schools.
The government plans to cut university subsidy for teaching archaeology by 50%, yet it’s never been more relevant to society.
A queen with a reputation for scandal, Marie Antoinette enjoyed her private spaces with a small circle of friends. A mirrored room kept the judgments of the outside world at bay.
The algorithm has become a new way of capturing reality automatically, and it demands a heightened ethical engagement with photos.
A history professor describes how student-designed video games have transformed his classroom and provided a substitute for academic essays.
Leaving our earthly bodies and living forever as a machine isn’t just a thing of modern science fiction. These transhumanist ideas date back to the 18th century.
To stave off illness and melancholy, moderate drinking was advised by doctors.
Boundaries aren’t just treaties. They’ve been built from rivers, oral history and newspaper notices — and rocks in the way of farmers.
Commemorations have slowly become more muted over the years due to the racist and misogynistic aspects of his rule
The French meddled in the civil war between the Yorks and Lancasters, hoping for an outcome that would favour them.
Hastings and Bannockburn didn’t exactly bring people together, but they remind us that the component parts of the UK are inextricably linked.
Where are they now? It’s half a century since Young Talent Times aired on Australian television. It changed its young stars and audiences.
As trans-Tasman borders re-open and in the wake of the Christchurch attacks, Anzac Day gains new meaning and presents new challenges – just as it has always done.
Losing archives has significant implications in a country like South Africa with a fraught and contested history because voices from the past, which may carry alternative histories, are lost.
A historian reviews Pablo Agüere’s award-winning Netflix film Akelarre and explains why it is one of the best films around on the early modern witch-hunt.
Marilyn Monroe famously wore “just a few drops of No. 5″ to bed. 100 years after Coco Chanel launched her perfume, it is as popular as ever.
Practicing Islam was banned in Spain after the Catholic conquest but recent discoveries prove that Muslims continued eating traditions in secret.
We studied hundreds of British legal documents and found most were made from sheepskin, which is harder to tamper with than other animal skins.
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