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Social and Cultural History

Cultural diversity – the making of Rome

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Richard Shrubb. The Roman Empire was arguably the most successful empire in history, eclipsing ...
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February 25, 2021

This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock painting

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes In Western Australia’s northeast Kimberley region, on Balanggarra Country, a two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo ...
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February 24, 2021

The West and the Rest: Deconstructing the Great Divergence Debate

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Madison Moulton. The causes of global inequalities between the West and the East is ...
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February 23, 2021

Mapping the World: A Short History of Cartography

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes From the cave paintings of Montignac to the Mercator Projection and beyond, maps explain how ...
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February 16, 2021

The Cold War, Churchill’s Iron Curtain, and the Power of Imagery

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Michael Vecchio Many years of fighting and an estimated 85 million people dead; the ...
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February 15, 2021

After Caribbean Slavery – Indentured Labour

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Richard Shrubb. The abolition of slavery by the British Empire would cause an economic ...
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February 14, 2021

A Brief History of Saint Valentine’s Day

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Michael Vecchio When one hears the word “Valentine”, many things may spring to mind, ...
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February 8, 2021

Long before GameStop, bucket shops challenged the legitimacy of Wall Street

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Robbie Moore, University of Tasmania. The gleeful manipulation of GameStop’s share price is not the first ...
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February 6, 2021

Australian government must negotiate a treaty with First Nations people

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Lidia Thorpe With 26 January looming, many Australians will be ashamed of the fact ...
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February 1, 2021

The Rise of Black Wall Street and the Race Massacre That Burned It Down

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes The Greenwood neighbourhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma was a hub for black business and wealth from ...
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January 29, 2021

Fake News, Misinformation and Propaganda Throughout History

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Madison Moulton Fake news has become a popular buzzword. However, the phenomenon is not ...
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January 17, 2021

What We Now Know About the Lost Colony of Roanoke

Explore the story of the Roanoke disappearance. And the latest findings and theories that have brought us a bit closer ...
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January 15, 2021

Explainer: what is radiocarbon dating and how does it work?

Rachel Wood, Australian National University Radiocarbon dating has transformed our understanding of the past 50,000 years. Professor Willard Libby produced ...
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January 13, 2021

Magic, culture and stalactites: how Aboriginal perspectives are transforming archaeological histories

New collaborative work at an Aboriginal cave in eastern Victoria, published today, shows the stark difference between contemporary archaeological research ...
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January 12, 2021
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The Changing Relationship Between the US Government and Native Americans

The Civilisation Program, the Indian Removal Act and the Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1776 - 1860. By Caitlan Hester The ...
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December 29, 2020

Decking the halls of history: the origins of Christmas decorations

By Anne Lawrence-Mathers, University of Reading The idea of hanging up decorations in the middle of winter is older than ...
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December 25, 2020

Best Historical Films 2010-2020

There may be many historically based films, but only a few can be rightfully called striking, emotional, and informative. As ...
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December 24, 2020
Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Explorer and Scientist

The Incredible Life of Paul Strzelecki

Explorer, Scientist, and Humanitarian Hero By Caitlan Hester. Sir Paul Strzelecki (1797-1873) spent over four years exploring 7,000 miles of ...
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December 17, 2020

Hidden women of history: Wauba Debar, an Indigenous swimmer from Tasmania who saved her captors

Though her brave acts were acknowledged after her death, Wauba Debar’s grave was later robbed in the name of “science” ...
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December 15, 2020

Got your bag? The critical place of mobile containers in human evolution

By Thomas Suddendorf, The University of Queensland and Michelle Langley, Griffith University Today, bags are everywhere — from cheap canvas ...
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December 14, 2020
Hawa Mahal Amer Fort

Decolonialising India’s Persianate Age

By Richard Shrubb. For the last 1,000 years and until very recently, scholars have held that the Indian sub-continent was ...
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December 14, 2020

Secondary school textbooks teach our kids the myth that Aboriginal Australians were nomadic hunter-gatherers

Robyn Moore, University of Tasmania In his book Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe writes that settler Australians wilfully misunderstood, hid and ...
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December 8, 2020

Doggerland: The Lost World Beneath the North Sea

By Madison Moulton Looking out at the North Sea – the body of water dividing Britain and the rest of ...
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December 3, 2020

Hidden women of history: Millicent Bryant, the first Australian woman to get a pilot’s licence

By James Vicars, University of New England. Before the glamorous flyers of the 1930s like Amelia Earhart, “Chubby” Miller and ...
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December 1, 2020

Five Great Historically Accurate Films

By Michael Vecchio. Most history enthusiasts will eye the release of a new film on a historical topic somewhat sceptically, ...
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November 28, 2020

What Hamilton Got Wrong

By Carolyn Comeau. It’s important to take historically-based art, whether a painting that condenses a battle or the acclaimed Broadway ...
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November 11, 2020

Five of the Most Historically Accurate PC Games

By Fergus O'Sullivan. Plenty of video games are marketed as being historically accurate, but few truly are. In this article, ...
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November 8, 2020

Why Do We Have an 8-Hour Working Day?

By Anna McEvinney. The working day as we now know it was the result of international, cross-industry labour efforts from ...
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November 6, 2020

Interesting Stories of the Mound-Building Native American Civilizations of the Midwest

By Caitlan Hester. Native American Mound-Building Civilizations For over 5,000 years the Eastern, Southeastern, and the Midwestern U.S. were populated ...
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November 5, 2020

Slavery Compensation: Who Got Paid?

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes By Richard Shrubb. With the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834 the ...
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November 4, 2020

The Bantu Expansion: How Bantu People Changed Sub-Saharan Africa

By Madison Moulton. About 3500 years ago, an event began that changed the demographic, linguistic, and cultural makeup of the ...
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October 29, 2020

Battle of One Tree Hill, Australian Frontier Wars

The Battle of One Tree Hill in 1843 was one of the largest battles in the Australian frontier wars, taking ...
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August 25, 2020

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World – Audiobook

On his first journey Cook mapped the east coast of Australia, on his second the British Admiralty sent him into ...
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August 12, 2020

Cook – Man or Myth

2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook and the HMB Endeavour charted the East Coast of Australia. The ...
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August 10, 2020

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