Largely unknown today, Bourbaki was the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. There’s just one problem: Bourbaki never existed.
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The government has tried to harness a profit-driven drug industry to serve public health before.
Real-life adherents to the Mandela Effect veer into conspiratorial thinking. But they do hit on an important truth: Our understanding of history is malleable.
The US president, Donald Trump, has arrived in the UK for a summit of NATO leaders – but it’s awkward timing for the British prime minister, Boris Johnson.
Irish Republican, socialist, suffragette and revolutionary, Countess Constance Markievicz was a fearsome politician who was the true first female member of the British parliament.
Attitudes toward single women have repeatedly shifted – and part of that attitude shift is reflected in the names given to unwed women.
How even sleepy, rural Mid Wales was once an industrial heartland feeding the slave trade.
This 1,000-year-old institution is not the solution to ageing Britain – here’s why.
This election season, the public is closely watching how social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are handling political ads.
From art that centres the African-American experience to feminist retellings, the British Museum’s new exhibition explores culture’s enduring fascination with the legend of Troy
Many trendy ‘Instagrammable’ foods have a long association with poverty.
More attention needs to be paid to loneliness’s complex history.
The politics of the war continue to resonate in our discussions of national identity and purpose.
Research behind a new novel about “human zoos”, which took Indigenous Australians on tours of Europe, shines a light on a little-known part of colonial history.
East Germans feel alienated and powerless. They see themselves as second-class citizens, while outsiders live high on what is rightfully theirs.
A media historian uses declassified government documents to show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.
One hundred years ago, the inventor of the most deadly weapon of the 20th century was born in Russia. Now more than 100 million of his namesake guns have been manufactured and used around the world.
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama pronounced that history had ended. How wrong he was.
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.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Research assistant, Deakin University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
