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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.
Historical perspective can offer much in this time of ecological crisis,. Many historians are reinventing their traditional scales of space and time to tell different kinds of stories that recognise the unruly power of nature.
We’ve known how to control typhoid for over 100 years. The rapid current increase of drug-resistant variants in both rich and poor countries is down to decades of short-sighted global health policies.
A newly-discovered petition from 1850 provides rare evidence of what might be women’s first moment of political activism in Australia.
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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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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Research assistant, Deakin University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
