History tells us governments do not always get what they wish for, and in fact often perverse outcomes flow from policy choices.
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We increasingly celebrate entrepreneurial self-reliance, but for disadvantaged people, the certainty of an adequate income is a fundamental foundation. It may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.
Over 20,000 former POWs returned to Australia at the end of the second world war. Archival research sheds light on those who struggled to readjust to life here - and the impact on their wives.
When it was discovered that citrus fruits could be used to treat scurvy, suddenly Sicilian lemons were very valuable. Enter the mafia.
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
Despite the technological advances that humanity has known for millennia, the standard of living did not begin to rise until around 1800.
“Critique of Black Reason” offers readers insight into how the construction of race and racism underpins our understanding of modernity.
Laws like Title IX are supposed to shield athletes from abuse. But lax enforcement allows sports organizations to protect perpetrators over athletes.
Nothing displays the ethical superiority of one’s values better than to treat a foe with the respect due another human being.
Desire haunts every sun-drenched frame of the Oscar-nominated film starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
Racist stigmatisation of Roma as socially ‘unadaptable’ has a long history across Europe.
Throughout the centuries, a number of coal miners have documented their lives with paintings. Some of their works are now in museums and bring the stories of the “pitmen” back to life.
From being thrown off a cliff to being sewn into a sack with animals, ancient Rome is notorious for its cruel and unusual punishments. But we must be careful what we take as historical fact.
Writing and rewriting black sporting history is a means of redressing exclusion.
Fitbits and other trackers are just the latest iteration of the fitness industry’s relationship with technology.
A century and a half after the last convict ship docked in Australia, new research is uncovering what happened to those who were transported.
Cabinet papers released today by the National Archives show Working Nation began as a rational exercise but was soon overtaken by a desire to make the policy everything to everyone.
The inn, the shepherds, angels and animals: pretty much everything we think we know about the Christmas story is historically wrong.
If Labour was such a disaster during this decade, how come so many of its then policies are now maintstream thinking?
Some say Britain should be proud of its imperial past. Oxford academics say it’s not so simple.
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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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Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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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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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
