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Truth-telling between First Nations and non-Indigenous people is a vital step in recognising past colonial wrongdoing. And research has found it is also a step towards self-determination and healing.
From semitropical playgrounds to life-endangering climate risks: Going back over a century, California’s and Florida’s growth has been predicated on climate – and promises of the good life.
No matter how much we believe our knowledge and our technological capabilities have evolved, pandemics prove we are still at the mercy of the natural world.
Using urine in pregnancy testing dates as far back as ancient Egypt.
From pulling faces to reading the bumps on your head, these historic leisure activities could be handy for a rainy summer day.
In the 19th century, it was impossible to get a London paper to distant towns or cities by breakfast. This gave local newspapers an advantage in distribution.
98% of Australia’s Japanese population were sent to internment camps during the second world war.
Brothers of Italy want streets named after fascist figures and the far-right’s ‘contribution’ to democracy recognised on national days of memory.
Collaborators cannot be reduced to single types. Their motivations are varied and can be hard to interpret.
Ancient stories of the sea and the sky date back to the end of the last ice age.
Chicken pâté was mixed with gravy, gelatine and whipped cream, before being frozen in decorative cups.
There was no one type of slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies, given how varied they were. But much of what historians know about slavery during those eras is horrific.
The findings suggest that the depth of the relationships Viking-age people had with animals have been dramatically underrepresented.
How did the letter x get its enduring role as a symbol of the unknown? A mathematician explains why it’s hard to say for sure.
The Antikythera Mechanism is an actual ancient Greek object that tracked the cycles of the Sun, the Moon and the planets against the stars.
The 26 of July Movement became a central part of the movement that emerged triumphant in early January 1959.
Long before thermometers, nature left its own temperature records. A climate scientist explains how ongoing global warming compares with ancient temperatures.
The soil was extracted during the Cold War from beneath one of the U.S military’s most unusual bases, then forgotten for decades.
The subject of the new Christoper Nolan film, Robert Oppenheimer, is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century’s most famous physicist.
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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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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Senior Lecturer, School of History, 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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Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Research assistant, Deakin University
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
