From Alfonso the Wise’s bawdy songs of slander to Ronald Reagan’s sunny smile, politics and humor have gone hand-in-hand for centuries. But no one seems to be laughing anymore.
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Glenn Stevens’ legacy shows how to maintain the independence of the Reserve Bank in crisis as well as the limits of monetary policy.
How can archivists properly preserve computer programs often written specifically to destroy data?
The value of the Armada painting, soon to go on show in Greenwich, lies in its masterful storytelling.
When fame and glory are at stake, human nature seems to dictate that some people will cheat.
In the West, the public perception of Stalin and the Terror lingers from the period immediately after his death in 1953. It shouldn’t.
Lucky Luciano, Al Capone and FDR walk into a Democratic convention…
How a research team identified parasites in ‘hygiene sticks’ that travellers on the Silk Road effectively used as their toilet paper.
The number crunchers who helped create our capitalist world have been measuring the world since ancient times.
Radio legend Graham McNamee was baseball’s first broadcast star. So why did it take 74 years for the National Baseball Hall of Fame to honor him?
Sydney’s Garden Palace, which burned to the ground in 1882, was a monument to empire’s glory. Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones is now working on an epic exhibition that will explore this historical epoch from an Aboriginal perspective.
The drop in sterling following Brexit has been as strong as when Germany invaded France in 1940.
Cameron has followed in Eden’s footsteps, but in the 1950s the leadership race was a different ballgame.
History shows how the act of remembrance has changed over time.
This week’s episode of Game of Thrones saw a battle scene that some have claimed to be the greatest TV has ever seen.
Many of us feel that technology threatens our relationships and ‘usual’ modes of human interaction. But so did the Victorians.
Behind the parochial media focus on the political manoeuvring within a divided Conservative Party, national decisions don’t get much more important than the UK’s referendum on its EU membership.
The medieval period wasn’t always dark and full of terrors
The president of the Thomas Wolfe Society explains why Law had his work cut out for him when he agreed to portray a man who was “a hydroelectric plant of emotion.”
Heightening liquor regulation has for centuries been the immediate response of urban policymakers when confronted with people and behaviours deemed socially undesirable.
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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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Historian, Australian Catholic 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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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Research assistant, Deakin University
