Historian and complexity scientist, Dan Hoyer, examines why past societies collapsed when faced with crisis, while others founds ways to survive and flourish.
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While the wider literature tells us that medieval women were silent and passive, their letters and embroideries tell a different story.
Pins were ubiquitous and swallowing them became associated with demonic posession and female “hysteria”.
Jewellery and fashion accessories have been popular tokens of love for centuries.
Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.
Some of Australia’s Federation-era dragons are among the oldest surviving imperial dragons in the world.
Digitising manuscripts may promise preservation and accessibility, but technology does not future-proof our access to the past.
The boards that oversee the education of students enrolled in Florida’s public colleges and universities are trying to restrict enrollment in sociology courses on those campuses.
Religious, racial and class-based differences often get politicized.
A loan deal for the Asante artefacts offers an opportunity for these objects to return home.
The American military buildup in Britain –popularly known as the “friendly invasion” – was an unprecedented moment in British history.
Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on
The whitewashing of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his crimes is crucial for understanding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperialist ideology and goals.
The pages of The Book of Kells certainly contain some of the elements that have been used to identify drug use in modern and contemporary art.
The Australian War memorial recently announced it will extend its exhibition to recognise the Frontier Wars, where Aboriginal resistance fighters fought in retaliation to massacres and other attacks.
Disability is often omitted from popular narratives of important figures from history.
A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of the 16th-century father of modern astronomy, who demonstrated that the Earth orbits the Sun.
The evolution of sexual behaviour is a long and complicated tale. Taking a long view involves a degree of speculation.
Since the Victorian age, tobacco has been a form of stress relief.
The 24-hour system was independently invented multiple times.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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