
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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