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When Australians went to the Western Front, language failed them. So they invented slanguage: a mix of slang, French words and creative swearing that, among other things, gave us the word “Aussie”.
Much has been written about Robinson’s first major league game. Far less is known about the first integrated spring training game in Florida.
If the word “reform” implies genuine public benefit, then real reform has been in short supply for all of the 106 years of electronic media regulation in Australia.
The US’s seventh president was a populist the establishment tried to lock out of the White House. Sound familiar?
It’s been more than 40 years since a French sex workers strike kicked off a lively global human rights movement, but their legacy lives on.
If Liverpool hadn’t supplied it with warships, the South might not have been able to put up much of a fight against the Union.
Australia has a lesson to learn from Germany when it comes to reconciling with a shameful past. Artists are taking the lead in ‘When silence falls’, a formidable exhibition.
Australian parliaments routinely legislate in respect of socially contentious issues without resorting to plebiscites or referenda.
Debates around blackface and Indigenous health share similar characteristics that reveal aspects of Australian society when it comes to race.
Anglo-Saxon opposition to the Norman conquest lasted for years after the Battle of Hastings.
The tiltyard – like the football pitch – was an important arena in which men could demonstrate their prowess in front of a vast audience.
In 1942 a man called Walter White travelled to Hollywood to try and persuade filmmakers to cut the negative stereotypes of African Americans in movies.
It is 2016 but, when it comes to housing, in many ways it could actually be 1891.
Without them, June would soon fall in winter.
Representing even the Crusades as wars between Christians and Muslims is a gross oversimplification and a misreading of history.
Faced with fake history, Indian artists are digging up the past.
It’s been a long, slow decline, so can anyone solve the Great British cuppa crisis?
With Vikings on trend, it’s high time for a masterclass on the bizarre world of their names.
Anti-migrant rhetoric is running high in the US – but its star proponent would do well to think about his German roots.
Top contributors
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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
