In 1989, Francis Fukuyama pronounced that history had ended. How wrong he was.
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For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was normal for men and women to be treated differently, and judged by different standards.
It’s hotter and more crowded on the Underground but some things have got better for commuters.
Historical perspective can offer much in this time of ecological crisis,. Many historians are reinventing their traditional scales of space and time to tell different kinds of stories that recognise the unruly power of nature.
We’ve known how to control typhoid for over 100 years. The rapid current increase of drug-resistant variants in both rich and poor countries is down to decades of short-sighted global health policies.
A newly-discovered petition from 1850 provides rare evidence of what might be women’s first moment of political activism in Australia.
Over the past few decades, the US has gradually lowered the ceiling for refugees.
Up until the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, gambling and baseball had a marriage of convenience. A century later, gambling is again being seen as a solution to the sport’s woes.
Of the countries we looked at, all have seen an increase in subjective happiness since the 1970s.
As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last. That problem led to the invention of the punched card.
Somewhere between the early Buddhist times and today, worries about game addiction have given way to scientific understanding of the benefits of play, rather than its detriments.
The Southern Ocean, as artists have uncovered, is also a treasure trove of cultural narratives.
Thomas Cook may be history – but that history is about to be lost.
A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.
The first computer, named the ABC, was built at Iowa State University. But for a long time, few had heard of it.
As early as the 1860s the twin diseases of modernity – overwork and sleeplessness – became the focus of cultural anxieties.
A new genre of video games lets players explore virtual environments that recreate actual places and real people’s lives and memories.
Today’s beds are thought of as bastions of privacy. But not long ago, they were the perches from which kings ruled and places where travelers hunkered down with complete strangers.
The ‘turf war’ between doctors and pharmacists we see in current debates has a long history.
The word ‘OK’ has only been around for 180 years, but it’s become the most spoken word on the planet.
Principales colaboradores
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana 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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Professor of History, McGill University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Research assistant, Deakin University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
