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Our mapping project shows how extensive frontier violence was in Queensland....
First Nations people please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people.A pillar of the Uluru Statement from...
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'Time warp' takes students to Native American past to search for solutions...
Students become more emotionally engaged with history when it's presented in an interactive way, research shows.SDI Productions via Getty ImagesThe eyes of the fifth graders in Ms. Evans’ class widened...
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JFK’s death 60 years on: what Australian condolence letters reveal about us
US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 60 years ago, on November 22 1963. Within hours, the news ricocheted around the world. Perhaps we could imagine a substantial impact in Europe,...
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How HBO's The Gilded Age reflects wider tensions within 19th-century New York...
“The opera is where society puts itself on display,” claims Bertha Russell, one of the main protagonists in season two of HBO’s The Gilded Age. New York, where the show is set, was at the centre of the...
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How AI could reveal secrets of thousands of handwritten documents – from...
Have you ever struggled to read what that scrawl between “carrots” and “potatoes” is on your shopping list? Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) may be able to help.Over the last ten years, researchers...
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Kindertransport's complex legacy: saving children from the Nazis while...
When 200 unaccompanied child refugees arrived in Harwich, Essex, in early December 1938, they did so through a new visa-waiver scheme. These children from Berlin were escaping Nazi persecution, and...
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Being child-free has been deemed 'selfish' for decades – the history of this...
Waiting By The Window by Carl Holsøe.Wiki CommonsChoosing to be child-free is more common than ever before in some countries, including the US. Many people see not having children an ethical and...
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Why men in 19th century Wales dressed as women to protest taxation
South-west Wales was reeling in the wake of social unrest in November 1843. There had been a series of protests over several years by farmers furious at taxation levels, mainly attacking tollgates....
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Exhibition explores how the Victorians are being reimagined in contemporary art
As you enter Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, a quote from Oscar Wilde faces you from across the room: “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.” Wilde’s statement draws the attention of visitors...
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Blue Eye Samurai: historian explains what the Netflix series gets right and...
Warning: this article includes spoilers for Blue Eye Samurai.Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai is an anime series set during the opening decades of Japan’s Edo period (1603–1867), also known as the Tokugawa...
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Napoleon director Ridley Scott is calling on us historians to ‘get a life’ –...
The release of Napoleon unleashed a torrent of objections to historical errors in the movie. Social media platforms were inundated with outrage – particularly from military historians – objecting from...
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Gingerbread is a delicious yet ancient staple of the holiday season — and its...
The gingerbread house traces its origins to 18th-century Germany.Tatiana Gordievskaia/ ShutterstockNo confectionery symbolises the holidays quite like gingerbread. While most of us associate...
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Napoleon: ignore the griping over historical details, Ridley Scott's film is...
While Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has been causing consternation among some historians, they are overlooking the fact that the historical record does actually support the film’s narrative in terms of one...
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A short history of sunscreen, from basting like a chook to preventing skin...
Australians have used commercial creams, lotions or gels to manage our skin’s sun exposure for nearly a century. But why we do it, the preparations themselves, and whether they work, has changed over...
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Horse skulls and harmony singing – two winter customs which bring people in...
Imagine you’re having a quiet evening at home when suddenly there’s a knock on the door. You open it to find a boisterous crowd carrying a horse’s skull mounted on a pole and draped in ribbons – the...
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A brief history of time – as told by a watchmaker
Mikhail Leonov/ShutterstockI once restored a 1950s timepiece for a customer who waxed lyrical about the intricacies of my work – all the while refusing to pay. They baulked when I presented them with...
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Young people took up smoking during the pandemic – how tobacco has been used...
Lomb/ShutterstockIn the UK and much of the west, smoking rates have consistently declined since the turn of the millennium. But during some of the most anxiety-ridden months of the COVID pandemic in...
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A raunchy new 'Big History' tells the story of sex, but raises some...
Maxx-Studio/ShutterstockDavid Baker’s Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation condenses the story of the evolution of (predominantly) reproductive sex into 300 pages. That is quite a feat....
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The strange story of the grave of Copernicus
Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873)Jan Matejko / Wikimedia CommonsNicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun,...
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Four historical figures who you may not know had a disability
When we look back over years past, whose achievements make it into the history books? There are important stories and contributions that have long been overlooked because the people responsible were...
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