The Mexican War of Independence
In this lesson we will be learning about the Mexican war of independence and the effects it had on Mexico and it’s people.
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about the Mexican war of independence and the effects it had on Mexico and it’s people.
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about the rise of fascism in Italy, Germany, Japan and how the countries changed during those regimes.
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Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At least this is the standard narrative written by and about men to the exclusion of women. The idea of âMan the Hunterâ runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men. Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks, too.
Reading time: 8 minutes
The horror film genre has a long and celebrated history which now dates some 100 plus years yet for one film in particular has created a lasting legacy of genuine fright, unease, disturbance, controversy, and haunting imagery that has never been replicated.
In this lesson we will be learning about the final battles of Napoleon that led to his defeat and abdication.
Read MoreThis lesson takes us to the Roman Empire, where we will learn about Julius Caesar’s reign and the accomplishments of the numerous emperors.
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Mary Beard, professor of classics at the University of Cambridge, has recently been at the receiving end of a âtorrent of aggressive insultsâ for suggesting that Britain under the Roman empire â which at its height stretched from northern Africa to Scotland â was ethnically diverse. The trouble started when Beard described an educational cartoon produced by the BBC, which included a black Roman solider in Britain, as âpretty accurateâ.
In this lesson we will be learning about evolution of Hinduism as a synthesis if cultures and traditions including the Indo-Aryan Vedic religion.
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You may have heard the myth that the six o’clock swill â and the excessive drinking it supported â led to the tiles which are so common in Australian pubs. According to architectural historian J.M. Freeland in his 1966 book, after this early closing time was introduced, pubs became âno more than high-pressure drinking-housesâ.
This lesson we will be learning about the Etruscans, which were a Mediterranean civilization during the 6th to 3rd century BCE.
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Sheila Sibley enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942 with a vision of becoming a wartime nurse â âan angel of mercy, the wounded manâs guide ⌠the Rose of No-Manâs Landâ, in her own words. Many women wanted to âdo their bitâ during the second world war, and nursing had previously been the only avenue for women to join the military. They had historically been excluded from traditionally masculine roles within the armed forces.
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Frontiers like Hadrianâs Wall are central to the study of the Roman Empire. By now we might expect to have discovered most such major landmarks. However, by scrutinising archives of aerial photography, we have been able to identify as Roman two more walls that will transform our understanding of the frontier of the Roman Empire in Eastern Europe.
1917: OUR COSTLIEST YEAR AT WAR Reading time: 5 minutes A century ago, in early 1917, Australian...
Read MoreReading time: 6 minutes The rock art of northwestern Arnhem Land is world-renowned and represents...
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Five hundred years ago, on March 31 1520, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan began a sojourn in a part of South America that has been known as Patagonia ever since. Magellanâs five-month long overwinter in a natural harbour that has become known as Puerto San JuliĂĄn was part of the first circumnavigation of the globe.
In this lesson we will be learning about the two alliances that clashed in WW1 and the events that unfolded during that time.
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While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership is not. As Australians reflect on the sacrifices of their soldiers on ANZAC Day, itâs worth remembering the first time Australian and American troops joined forces in battle â in northern France, in the final year of the first world war.
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Cultures, customs and traditions change as time passes on, but sometimes this change is brought about with force from outside rather than evolution from within. One such example is how Gaelic culture was forced out of much of the Scottish Highlands during a process known as the Clearances. In this article, weâll give an overview of what the Clearances were and how they changed Scotland, and even the world, forever.
In this lesson we will be learning about the aftermath of the destruction from WW1 and the rebuilding of Europe.
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