Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year-rule of Libya has come to an violent end in a manner reminiscent of the dispatch of Fascist Italy’s Benito Mussolini. Libya under Gaddafi, like Libya before him, had a complex…
Rigor académico, oficio periodístico
Artículos sobre History
Mostrando 1461 - 1474 de 1474 artículos
CYCLING IN AUSTRALIA: Forget about the wild scenes of public adulation for Cadel Evans following his Tour de France triumph. Forget about the widespread admiration for champion cyclist Anna Meares following…
The Occupy Wall Street protests that started in New York have proved contagious. Sit-ins and attempted occupations have spread to other major American cities including Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and Atlanta…
Eugenics — the science of improving the race —was a powerful influence on the development of Western civilisation in the first half of the twentieth century. And Melbourne’s elite were among its chief…
Nearly 500 activists from more than 100 activist networks in 14 European countries have been interviewed about their involvement…
While adding up your grocery bill in the supermarket, you’re probably not thinking how important or sophisticated our number system is. But the discovery of the present system, by unknown mathematicians…
Sometimes an historian will challenge one of the key ideological myths of Australian capitalism. Henry Reynolds does it in his work on the colonial treatment of Aborigines, a treatment some go so far as…
The original Neanderthal inhabitants of Europe were overwhelmed by modern humans who arrived from Africa with ten times the…
Soldiers wearing typical armour in medieval conflicts expended huge amounts of energy moving around in the protective suits…
A manuscript expert may have discovered the world’s earliest question mark in an ancient middle eastern language. Cambridge…
Given the often hysterical media coverage of the refugee debate you could be forgiven for thinking that people seeking refuge in other countries is a new phenomenon. Not so. Refugees have been around since…
A fascinating insight into cultural life in the Soviet Union in the 1940s and ‘50s has been uncovered by historians from…
Published biographies, and indeed many histories, are often about the famous, rich or powerful. And most often, they’re about men. I’ve preferred to research and write about so-called “ordinary” men and…
All human cultures and social groups that we know of respond to music and dance. The type of music may vary but the underlying, fundamental principles of making music are the same. Our recognition of…
Principales colaboradores
-
Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
-
Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
-
Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
-
Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
-
Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
-
Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
-
Professor of History, McGill University
-
Research assistant, Deakin University
-
Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
-
Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
-
ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
-
Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
-
Historian, Australian Catholic University
-
Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
-
Professor of History, Macquarie University
