Indigenous people recorded stories that provide much detail about eruptions in Australia. They can help us date natural events in the past and are legitimate sources of scientific information.
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Women have long been the targets of police violence as well as men.
Aboriginal people have been using the stars to help remember routes between distant locations, and these routes are still alive in our highway networks today.
It may seem that in Africa, oral culture has the upper hand over literacy. But this is not the case.
In the beginning, as far back as we remember, our home islands were not islands at all as they are today. They were part of a peninsula that jutted out from the mainland and we roamed freely throughout…
On September 6, Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, announced that one of the fabled lost ships of Sir John Franklin’s expedition had been found off Hat Island, south-west of King William Island…
It is probably just as well that Boston College plans to return the tapes to ex-IRA and loyalist paramilitaries who were interviewed and recorded as part of their Center for Irish Programs’ Belfast project…
The United States was in the middle of a civil war 150 years ago and, while Abraham Lincoln had just issued the emancipation proclamation, it would still be another 18 months until freedom finally came…
We all know the story: Once upon a time there was a young girl who took a walk through the woods to visit her grandmother, carrying a basket of goodies. When she arrived she found her granny ill in bed…
Generational difference is one of the major issues of our time. Game shows like Talkin’‘bout Your Generation assume that Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y contestants have very different attitudes and knowledge…
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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PhD candidate, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England
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Research Associate at Arctic institute of North America, University of Calgary
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Research Scientist in Archaeology, South Australian Museum
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Associate Professor of Modern Continental European History, University of Warwick
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Knowledge Exchange Fellow/Project Lead, University of Strathclyde
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Adjunct fellow, Western Sydney University
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Senior Researcher at the Archive & Public Culture, University of Cape Town
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Research Fellow at Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre, Brown University
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Senior Research Fellow, adjunct, Flinders University
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Honorary Research Fellow in Agrarian History, University of Leicester
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Lecturer, Durham University
