New Zealand’s colonial wars were the third most costly conflict in the nation’s history. The Anzac Day Amendment Bill is an opportunity to make remembrance truly inclusive.
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A new book illuminates the bold lives of Australian women journalists between 1860 and the end of Word War II – a time when female reporters were ‘almost unheard of’.
Avenues of Honour were planted to remind us of the sacrifice and suffering of our servicemen and women. But as the years wore on, many declined or disappeared.
Stories like the kind stored in this place, known as Telperion Shelter, provide history to a landscape and people.
The British Labour Party has pledged to conduct an audit of the impact of Britain’s colonial legacy.
Canadians’ indifference to their military isn’t so surprising. Almost every military conflict has raised serious questions, and spurred divisive debate, about Canadian unity and independence.
The more notorious concentration camps of the 20th century must serve as a stark reminder of the depravity of tearing children away from their parents and putting them in camps.
In practice, land expropriation in South Africa will be a matter of deciding which descendants of the dispossessed are entitled to it.
We know all about World War I’s terrible conditions, tactics, tear gas. But what about the teeth?
Dicken’s great anti-hero has monopolised festive literature for too long. Here are the alternative takes on the season of goodwill that you have been missing.
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Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate Professor of History and Politics, Thompson Rivers University
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Program Director, Canadian Global Affairs Institute and Director of the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary
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Professor of History, University of Botswana
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Teacher and Researcher, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in the History of Southern Africa, SOAS, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, University of Mpumalanga
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Journalism, Curtin University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato