Social and Cultural History

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Richard Shrubb. The Roman Empire was arguably the most successful empire in history, eclipsing ...
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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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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Madison Moulton. The causes of global inequalities between the West and the East is ...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes From the cave paintings of Montignac to the Mercator Projection and beyond, maps explain how ...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Michael Vecchio Many years of fighting and an estimated 85 million people dead; the ...
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Richard Shrubb. The abolition of slavery by the British Empire would cause an economic ...
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Michael Vecchio When one hears the word “Valentine”, many things may spring to mind, ...
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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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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Lidia Thorpe With 26 January looming, many Australians will be ashamed of the fact ...
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Estimated reading time: 11 minutes The Greenwood neighbourhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma was a hub for black business and wealth from ...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Madison Moulton Fake news has become a popular buzzword. However, the phenomenon is not ...
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Explore the story of the Roanoke disappearance. And the latest findings and theories that have brought us a bit closer ...
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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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New collaborative work at an Aboriginal cave in eastern Victoria, published today, shows the stark difference between contemporary archaeological research ...
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The Civilisation Program, the Indian Removal Act and the Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1776 - 1860. By Caitlan Hester The ...
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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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There may be many historically based films, but only a few can be rightfully called striking, emotional, and informative. As ...
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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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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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By Thomas Suddendorf, The University of Queensland and Michelle Langley, Griffith University Today, bags are everywhere — from cheap canvas ...
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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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Robyn Moore, University of Tasmania In his book Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe writes that settler Australians wilfully misunderstood, hid and ...
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By Madison Moulton Looking out at the North Sea – the body of water dividing Britain and the rest of ...
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By James Vicars, University of New England. Before the glamorous flyers of the 1930s like Amelia Earhart, “Chubby” Miller and ...
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By Michael Vecchio. Most history enthusiasts will eye the release of a new film on a historical topic somewhat sceptically, ...
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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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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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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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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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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes By Richard Shrubb. With the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834 the ...
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By Madison Moulton. About 3500 years ago, an event began that changed the demographic, linguistic, and cultural makeup of the ...
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The Battle of One Tree Hill in 1843 was one of the largest battles in the Australian frontier wars, taking ...
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On his first journey Cook mapped the east coast of Australia, on his second the British Admiralty sent him into ...
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2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook and the HMB Endeavour charted the East Coast of Australia. The ...
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