Boundaries aren’t just treaties. They’ve been built from rivers, oral history and newspaper notices — and rocks in the way of farmers.
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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.
Eagerly anticipated every year, the sakura season in Japan is a time to appreciate change.
In a new book, Hiên Do Benoit looks at Vietnam’s society, culture and political and economic history, and provides us with the keys to understanding this state unlike any other..
Americans were tired of social distancing and mask-wearing. At the first hint the virus was receding, people pushed to get life back to normal. Unfortunately another surge of the disease followed.
A revisionist reading of reality, in which social and political events are only understood by a chosen few, is the basis of the QAnon gospel.
Nile communities carefully monitored and recorded the river’s flow. Centuries later these records are still being used by water resource managers around the world to analyse unpredictable river flows.
Media coverage of the recent Dr. Seuss controversy are rooted in both a lack of awareness of the challenges and realities of maintaining collections and a false understanding of history.
When it comes to anniversaries we should not just celebrate the good but also take stock of the bad.
This ancient ecosystem showed that the ice sheet had melted to the ground
in northern Greenland within the past million years.
A Viking hoard of silver coins and jewellery expands our understanding of French history.
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