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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.
Food was tied into multiple Halloween traditions that had love trouble at their core.
Life on Our Planet has some important messages about the nature of evolution, and what the future may hold for us.
Fifty years ago today, after a prolonged and controversial period of construction, the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
Retaining a statue or monument takes very little work – explaining it is a mammoth and contested task.
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?
Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.
A new study tracks the number of history academics and history students in Australia. The results are alarming.
Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine reprised the risks of energy weaponization, but the oil landscape today and energy security itself are changing.
Killing for Country does brilliantly for one group of families what a robust, locally grounded truth-telling process might do for the whole nation.
What should our museums collect from the sea of information and imagery to represent how Australians feel about the referendum?
With its iconic designs and its showcasing of women writers, the Yellow Book gave its name to the decade.
Some Nobel Prize-winning ideas originate in strange places, but still go on to revolutionize the scientific field. George de Hevesy’s research on radioactive tracers is one such example.
The emotional response to the loss of the Sycamore Gap is part of a long history of emblematic trees, their destruction and renewal
The book makes invaluable contributions to subjects of race, identity and belonging and how they shape human interrelations.
Superconductivity may sound like science fiction, but the first experiments to achieve it were conducted over a century ago. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, credited with the discovery, won a Nobel Prize in 1913.
Skeletons found with items that don’t align with their estimated sex are usually excluded from research – but that assumes a 19th century view of gender.
Before the 1970s, there were no trans organisations or publicly advertised gender clinics. But camp cultures brought together a variety of sexually- and gender-diverse people.
The answer might surprise you.
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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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Professor of History, McGill University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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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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Senior Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University
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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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Research assistant, Deakin University
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue 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
