Centuries of management practice were built on cruelty and exploitation. But history also offers a countercurrent – leaders who chose care, fairness and conscience.
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From Babe Ruth’s barnstorming tours to Shohei Ohtani’s star power, baseball’s century-long ties to Japan have grown into one of Major League Baseball’s most reliable global growth strategies.
Peter Kirkpatrick’s The Wild Reciter is a provocative romp that returns poetry to the Australian people.
It was Coco Channel who first made tanning fashionable. But South Californian and Polynesian surfers and American artists on the Côte d'Azur gave it its ‘raison d'être’.
Early products focused on tanning. Others roasted you like a chicken. Which of these claims can you remember?
The answer might surprise you.
Freud doing cocaine. Psychologist William James experimenting with nitrous oxide. A new history tells of the Romantic rebels who first sampled psychoactive substances.
As the craft beer industry grows, so too do the dedicated communities that form around it – an expert explains.
Over the past 16 years, Twitter has amassed an incredible amount of user-generated data which contains a detailed and extensive record of cultural moments. Musk’s takeover threatens these archives.
Americans of all stripes have long embraced the culture of the ancient Mediterranean, using ancient ideals to navigate a new world.
Mike Davis’s radical urban history of LA was a trailblazing book that remains startlingly relevant to those of us who live in other supersizing cities in the early 21st century.
Under lockdown, Cineteca Milano is releasing 20 archived films a week online. Why aren’t we seeing this from our National Film and Sound Archive?
Five decades on from the original series our idea of what makes civilisation has broadened.
A new modern art exhibition in Tehran is being promoted as a bracing act of cultural diplomacy. But we should look a little deeper.
What sacred sites have been damaged by The North Dakota Access Pipeline? We can’t really know for certain – and our legal system is partly to blame.
When it comes to valuable African fossils, much is at stake. They often unearth disputed ways of debating archaeology as a science of ‘discovery’.
Ask any young woman whether she feels embarrassed by her periods and she’ll likely deny it. Her grandmother might have hidden all evidence of “the curse” but not today’s liberated women. Right?
This Remembrance Day, spend some time with Claire Adams Mackinnon – the silent Hollywood movie star who stole the heart of Melbourne bachelor and lived the last 40 years of her life in Victoria.
50 years after the UK first experimented with removing the death penalty for murder, one name has become our bridge to the hangman’s noose.
President Obama’s recent condemnation of the Confederate battleflag mirrors the current and rapidly-changing public mood on this artefact. But attitudes to the flag have deeper roots.
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