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The impact of this election on the official record will be significant, shaping both the immediate political landscape and future historical documentation.
Matching new archological findings with ethnographic records, we can show ritual fireplaces have been in continuous use for at least 12,000 years.
The Australian Labor Party has been around for more than a century. In that time, very few MPs have crossed the floor. Why does it matter so much that one did?
The subject of Prime Video’s new show My Lady Jane is England’s ‘nine day queen’. What do we know about her story?
Cultural historian Clair Wills reflects on the secret cousin born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, which at one point had a morality rate of 75% – and her family’s complicity in a national tragedy.
Figurines of warriors and hunters dedicated to Aphrodite at her temples indicate that she had a widespread following among military men.
Centuries ago, women could “plead the belly” - argue they were pregnant to avoid the death penalty. It gave rise to the female jurors in Australian courtrooms.
Our roads are full of potholes but at least they don’t smell of horse pee.
Gunpowder warfare kicked off a new era of invasive surgery and prosthetic technology in Western medicine.
Even before writing was invented, oral stories had to be constantly told and retold to be passed down through hundreds of generations.
Amid rising unemployment, inflation and poverty in the 1830s, Philadelphia taxpayers believed welfare scammers were bleeding coffers dry. Poor lists from 1829 show they were wrong.
At the heart of the Maya civilisation were sacred sites where ritual sacrifices took place. A new DNA analysis reveals more about this practice and Maya genetic legacy.
In the Regency period there was advice for women of all sizes.
Charming and irreverent as they were, The Beatles themselves were only part of the reason the tour was so memorable.
Despite its name, this sandstone slab is not a simple stone. It was once part of a monument, an ancient epigraph measuring three by three metres carrying about 50 lines of text.
Human bondage was big business in the antebellum US, and men weren’t the only ones cashing in.
King Cnut has the dubious honour of being the first person recorded in English history to have been disturbed by something frustratingly urgent just as he was about to enjoy a bath.
The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one of annihilation; it also includes the people who managed to escape the city.
Silk muffs were often made at home and offered women a blank canvas for sartorial self-expression.
Principales colaboradores
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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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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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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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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Research assistant, Deakin University
