For nearly 500 years, priests and imams justified slavery on the basis of a misunderstood passage of the Bible.
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Mentions of total solar eclipses in ancient history help researchers pinpoint precise dates of notable events.
The success of ‘Oppenheimer’ at the Academy Awards presents an opportunity to think about critical criteria for viewing historical film — and what we are owed by historical filmmakers.
Fighting for voter access is an inevitable part of any democracy, from ancient Rome to the US today. Roman legislators were able to thwart elite political sway by introducing written ballots.
I recently visited four historic houses in Victoria that are open to the public to get a better understanding of women who worked from home.
Not the dandy highwayman of popular imagination, Dick Turpin was a violent and, according to records, ugly criminal.
It was sometimes thought that men who had sex with men would give birth to monsters.
Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization of medicine. The resulting differences in access to care endure today.
What changing artistic depictions of women’s alopecia tells us about hair loss today.
Before being pushed aside by the NCAA, the AIAW, which was designed for and by women, governed women’s college athletics.
Being unable to agree on a united national memorial shows just how disunited Wales had been.
Pope Gregory XIII was patron of Rome’s renaissance, and a legal luminary whose influence transcends the ages.
One of the earliest known references to asbestos may come from Theophrastus, a student of Aristotle and his successor at the Lyceum in Athens.
Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
The bog does not neatly divide traces of the distant and recent past. Archaeology and forensic science still have much to learn from each other.
Conservative critics argue the ‘social responsibility’ of business lies in increasing profits. But values have always been tied up with money-making, from the welfare state to colonialism.
A thrillingly accurate Stone Age horror, a violent Chilean wester, a sumptuous food romance, a comforting rom-com and a new look at a master painter’s love of fashion.
When parliament blocked a radical MP from taking his seat in parliament, Burke warned that ignoring the people’s democratic will could have disastrous consequences.
There are some incredible rare finds on show at this exhibition but it fails to depict a more diverse life in and around Rome’s armies.
Given the dependence of Judaism, Christianity and even Islam on the Hebrew Bible, it is important to understand how the Bible depicts blood vengeance.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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