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More attention needs to be paid to loneliness’s complex history.
The politics of the war continue to resonate in our discussions of national identity and purpose.
Research behind a new novel about “human zoos”, which took Indigenous Australians on tours of Europe, shines a light on a little-known part of colonial history.
East Germans feel alienated and powerless. They see themselves as second-class citizens, while outsiders live high on what is rightfully theirs.
A media historian uses declassified government documents to show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.
One hundred years ago, the inventor of the most deadly weapon of the 20th century was born in Russia. Now more than 100 million of his namesake guns have been manufactured and used around the world.
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama pronounced that history had ended. How wrong he was.
For most of the Victorian era, people thought it was normal for men and women to be treated differently, and judged by different standards.
It’s hotter and more crowded on the Underground but some things have got better for commuters.
Historical perspective can offer much in this time of ecological crisis,. Many historians are reinventing their traditional scales of space and time to tell different kinds of stories that recognise the unruly power of nature.
We’ve known how to control typhoid for over 100 years. The rapid current increase of drug-resistant variants in both rich and poor countries is down to decades of short-sighted global health policies.
A newly-discovered petition from 1850 provides rare evidence of what might be women’s first moment of political activism in Australia.
Over the past few decades, the US has gradually lowered the ceiling for refugees.
Up until the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, gambling and baseball had a marriage of convenience. A century later, gambling is again being seen as a solution to the sport’s woes.
Of the countries we looked at, all have seen an increase in subjective happiness since the 1970s.
As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last. That problem led to the invention of the punched card.
Somewhere between the early Buddhist times and today, worries about game addiction have given way to scientific understanding of the benefits of play, rather than its detriments.
The Southern Ocean, as artists have uncovered, is also a treasure trove of cultural narratives.
Thomas Cook may be history – but that history is about to be lost.
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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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Senior Lecturer, School of History, 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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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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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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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National 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
