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The Iranian Revolution was a hard-fought battle for those in favour of the Islamist model of governance, inspiring similar movements that have had varying degrees of success across the region.
The claim of “resistance” inside the White House offers the possibility of government by Trump appointees who prefer to keep their positions rather than publicly denounce a man they disapprove of.
Since the Byzantine era, gossipy anecdotes about the mishaps of rulers and their inner circles have been compiled, shared and published.
6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. What happened then, and how we can keep to the promise – “never again”?
Forefather of contemporary neoliberalism or violent dictator – Pinochet’s complicated legacy in Chile and the world.
Climate science in the computer age is the pursuit of elite scientists. A historian of science sees an upside to the popular, participatory approach of studying changes to the climate from the 19th century.
Both before, during and after conflict, wars have shaped the creation of welfare states.
The reverberations of JFK’s assassination can still be felt to this day in the paranoid and racialised politics of the American right
A lesser known aspect of bogs is their remarkable potential to preserve both environmental and archaeological records.
When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, it unleashed one of the most devastating events in history, which still has implications today.
More than 16 million people lost their lives in world war one. Over a century later, we are still asking – for what?
Although it has ballooned in recent years, the market for men’s cosmetics isn’t just a modern phenomenon.
Recent developments mean that touting on an industrial scale could become more difficult.
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A podcast all about nothing. From the importance of doing nothing to the ill-effects of time spent in solitary confinement and what nothing means in space.
In 1979, David Duke told the media he had launched a wildly successful recruiting drive in Connecticut. A local reporter wanted to test Duke’s claims – so he filled out an application to join the KKK.
It is 50 years since anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner gave the Boyer Lectures in which he coined the phrase ‘the great Australian silence’. How far have we come since?
A great movie that gets some of its history wrong is way better than an accurate film that puts people to sleep.
New prime minister Pedro Sánchez wants to move the remains from a national memorial site. But not everyone agrees.
A wood and glass case invented in the early 19th-century transformed the movement of plants around the world. In Melbourne, several thousand people greeted a primrose on its arrival from England.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort 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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Professor of History, McGill University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, School of History, ANU / Chercheur Associé at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Australian National University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, 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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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
