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Borderlands are all about diversity and competing understandings of community and nation.
The Tasman map, dating from the 1600s, was promised to the Commonwealth – but NSW got it instead. Here’s how it happened.
Olga of Kyiv is today recognised as one of Eastern Orthodoxy’s greatest saints – and her bloodthirsty tale is one of defiance and vengeance, and worth remembering today.
Scientists have uncovered Roman farms beneath what was thought to be prehistoric forest in France.
Dutch soldiers’ own records – especially amateur photographs, many thousands of which survive – have long contained evidence they knew of atrocities.
His theory, based on years of detailed climate and weather data, became known as the Callendar Effect. Today we call it global warming.
While men wrote about women “deforming” their bodies in corsets, there is very little writing from women themselves about what the experience was like.
Innovation made the 2022 Winter Games possible in Beijing, but snowmaking has limits in a warming climate.
‘Attention snacking’ may help keep us alert.
To understand the politics of “Bersiap”, we must refrain from the dichotomous framing of Netherlands/Indonesia as us/them that has plagued years of public debate on the two countries’ colonial past.
Authentic use of history in games is not about claims to accuracy, but about transparency.
All presidents must deposit transcriptions of their public statements with the National Archives. But in the case of Donald Trump, there’s something missing.
You have a finely honed sense of privacy in the physical world. But the sights and sounds you encounter online don’t help you detect risks and can even lull you into a false sense of security.
This book is a history of individuals, ideas and institutions that were at the fulcrum of important scientific developments.
St. Bernadette’s visions of the Virgin Mary in the 19th century inspired the pilgrimage site millions of Catholics flock to each year.
We can’t judge the Roman period by our standards and assume that it was predominantly White.
Science has made a strong case for the year 536 as being one of the worst in human history, a year punctuated by volcanic eruptions, drought, famine and plague - and a year long winter.
Despite arguments that young children have enjoyed Jane Eyre for 150 years, the Victorians were much more concerned about the novel’s influence than universities are today.
A phenomenon first theorized over 200 years ago is also a telltale sign of nuclear tests.
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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
