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The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
Hybrid flowers became a metaphor for sterility at the end of the 19th century.
10,000 children, from mostly Jewish families, were saved from the Nazis by the Kindertransport visa-waiver scheme, which started in 1938.
The sheer quantity of data these processes will make available has significant ramifications for scholarship.
Old and new money come into conflict in this American ‘prequel’ to Downton Abbey.
Hundreds of Australians wrote to Jackie Kennedy after her husband was killed. The letters paint a revealing portrait of who we were and who we wanted to be.
Rather than have students memorize names and dates, this history curriculum invites students to grapple with real-life issues faced by people from the past.
Frontier violence was widespread across colonial Queensland and has real life implications for contemporary Australia.
Men in the 1700s penned vehement letters about the way women dressed, slut-shaming them as “cork-rumped devils”.
Like many other institutions, Scouts is caught in an awkward gap between tradition and modernity, as society grapples with colonial figures who were heroes to some, but not others.
The group of climate activists are drawing on a history of public action to show that what they are doing is not new at all
Davis practised microhistory – analysing an incident, life or location as a way into writing about wider society
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.
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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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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, History, Flinders University
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Lecturer in History of Design and Material Culture, De Montfort 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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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of History, McGill University
