Austrian-Jewish child refugees aboard the ship Prague on its arrival at Harwich during the Kindertransport in 1938.
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10,000 children, from mostly Jewish families, were saved from the Nazis by the Kindertransport visa-waiver scheme, which started in 1938.
Plato, Seneca and Aristotle in an illustration from a medieval manuscript circa 1325.
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The sheer quantity of data these processes will make available has significant ramifications for scholarship.
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Old and new money come into conflict in this American ‘prequel’ to Downton Abbey.
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Hundreds of Australians wrote to Jackie Kennedy after her husband was killed. The letters paint a revealing portrait of who we were and who we wanted to be.
Students become more emotionally engaged with history when it’s presented in an interactive way, research shows.
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Rather than have students memorize names and dates, this history curriculum invites students to grapple with real-life issues faced by people from the past.
Entries in the Springsure Native Mounted Police Diary.
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Frontier violence was widespread across colonial Queensland and has real life implications for contemporary Australia.
Taylor Swift performing her Eras tour.
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Men in the 1700s penned vehement letters about the way women dressed, slut-shaming them as “cork-rumped devils”.
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Like many other institutions, Scouts is caught in an awkward gap between tradition and modernity, as society grapples with colonial figures who were heroes to some, but not others.
The Rokeby Venus was slashed by a Suffragette and was chosen by Just Stop Oil for this reason.
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The group of climate activists are drawing on a history of public action to show that what they are doing is not new at all
Natalie Zemon Davis speaking in 2010.
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Davis practised microhistory – analysing an incident, life or location as a way into writing about wider society
The Great Fire of London by Josepha Jane Battlehooke (1675).
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Writers at the time were much more concerned with the fire’s destructive power than describing how it started in any detail.
A vintage Victorian Halloween postcard.
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Food was tied into multiple Halloween traditions that had love trouble at their core.
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Life on Our Planet has some important messages about the nature of evolution, and what the future may hold for us.
Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point Sydney, 1965.
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Fifty years ago today, after a prolonged and controversial period of construction, the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
The statue of English merchant and slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.
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Retaining a statue or monument takes very little work – explaining it is a mammoth and contested task.
Rocky Mountain fires leave telltale ash layers in nearby lakes like this one.
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As the climate warms, devastating fires are increasingly likely. The 2020 fires pushed the Southern Rockies beyond the historical average. Is there hope for the Northern Rockies?
The Welsh National Mining Memorial was unveiled in Senghenydd in 2013.
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Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.
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A new study tracks the number of history academics and history students in Australia. The results are alarming.
Cars lined up for gasoline in New Jersey in 1973 as supplies ran low and prices shot upward.
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Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine reprised the risks of energy weaponization, but the oil landscape today and energy security itself are changing.
Drawing by an Aboriginal boy, Oscar, of a Native Police operation c.1897 near Camooweal.
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Killing for Country does brilliantly for one group of families what a robust, locally grounded truth-telling process might do for the whole nation.