Thalidomide caused thousands of spontaneous abortions and left more than 10,000 children severely disabled. What guarantee is there that the same thing can’t occur again today?
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The story of German migration to South Australia can highlight the experience of diverse communities, and what can happen to them in a time of serious conflict.
Two new monster movies are to be released this week in the lead-up to Christmas, and each sports a very different kind of beast.
The Anglo-Saxons can teach us plenty about sex and the labels we assign to ourselves today.
These two powers have lurched between friendship and war for centuries.
Most of the flavor combinations and traditions we’ve come to associate with the holiday date back to the Middle Ages.
Exotic animal escapes are relatively rare today, but in the 19th century it wasn’t unusual to find a tiger loose in the street.
Terrorists have attacked leaders and civilians in France many times before, and for a dizzying array of reasons.
Tom D.C. Roberts has crafted a book full of remarkable insights into a central figure in Australian corporate and political history, a figure hitherto enveloped in family mythology: Keith Murdoch.
Blue crops up in all sorts of idioms and registers. But, as a new National Gallery of Victoria exhibition demonstrates, there’s more to the colour, and its long history, than meets the eye.
Günter Schabowski’s press conference in November 1989 helped trigger the collapse of the Berlin wall. Was it really as much of an accident as we like to think?
What explains the huge gap between US and European consumers on GMO foods? A short history helps explain.
Like many great challenges of the 21st century, the science identifying the problems with sugar seems clear. What’s lacking is the will to address them.
While Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin openly draws on medieval and early modern history in the worlds of his books, his subversive depictions of witchcraft make his female characters both intriguing and powerful.
The first World Series radio broadcasts were a far cry from today’s pricey television productions.
Shakespeare’s plays have kept “this glorious and well-foughten field” alive, championing its power as a myth of national unity and heroism.
When Kepler was at the very height of his scientific career, his mother was accused of witchcraft.
Our past is under threat from “nighthawks” - illegal metal detectorists who go out at night to seek their fortune from protected ancient monuments. A Bristol archaeologist investigates.
Suffragette tells a story that is both of its time, and timeless - an historical struggle whose lessons, sadly, still need to be learned.
Suffragettes were not merely nice (if slightly bonkers) posh ladies in impressive hats.
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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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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National 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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