Statue commemorating coal mining in Teversal, Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands.
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Coal-mining communities are disappearing in the UK so it’s more important than ever to authentically document their way of life.
A group of Greek migrants at a picnic in the outskirts of Melbourne in 1936.
La Trobe Greek Archives
Far from just a gathering with friends, Australian picnics have long been associated with the political – from trade unions to feminist resistance.
The final work of a gifted historian charts the rise and fall of the Communist Party of Australia.
In this 1919 caricature, Ukrainians are surrounded by a Bolshevik (to the north, man with hat and red star), a Russian White Army soldier (to the east, with Russian eagle flag and a short whip), and to the west a Polish soldier, a Hungarian (in pink uniform) and two Romanian soldiers.
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Borderlands are all about diversity and competing understandings of community and nation.
State Library New South Wales
The Tasman map, dating from the 1600s, was promised to the Commonwealth – but NSW got it instead. Here’s how it happened.
St.Olga by Mikhail Nesterov.
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.
Jonathan Lenoir
Scientists have uncovered Roman farms beneath what was thought to be prehistoric forest in France.
A Dutch soldier hands out clothes to Indonesian because of a textile shortage two years after Indonesia’s Independence.
Dutch soldiers’ own records – especially amateur photographs, many thousands of which survive – have long contained evidence they knew of atrocities.
Guy Stewart Callendar connected carbon dioxide concentrations with rising temperatures.
GS Callendar Archive, University of East Anglia
His theory, based on years of detailed climate and weather data, became known as the Callendar Effect. Today we call it global warming.
Attributed to Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, Kitchen interior with the parable of the rich man and the poor Lazarus, c. 1620-20.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
While men wrote about women “deforming” their bodies in corsets, there is very little writing from women themselves about what the experience was like.
Almost all of the snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics came from machines.
AP Photo/Gregory Bull
Innovation made the 2022 Winter Games possible in Beijing, but snowmaking has limits in a warming climate.
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‘Attention snacking’ may help keep us alert.
Indonesians during the country’s revolutionary period in the 1940s.
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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.
University of Aberdeen
Authentic use of history in games is not about claims to accuracy, but about transparency.
White House staffers carry boxes to Marine One as Donald Trump leaves the White House en route to Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 20, 2021.
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
All presidents must deposit transcriptions of their public statements with the National Archives. But in the case of Donald Trump, there’s something missing.
People are good at avoiding prying eyes, but avoiding online snoops – not so much.
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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.
In the nineteenth century, improved breeds and new agricultural technology underpinned exports of ostrich feathers from South Africa.
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This book is a history of individuals, ideas and institutions that were at the fulcrum of important scientific developments.
Apparitions of the Virgin Mary have inspired pilgrimages – and souvenirs – in Lourdes, France, for more than a century.
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St. Bernadette’s visions of the Virgin Mary in the 19th century inspired the pilgrimage site millions of Catholics flock to each year.
Septimius Severus was an emperor who was born in Roman Africa.
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We can’t judge the Roman period by our standards and assume that it was predominantly White.
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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.