Melbourne Museum’s major exhibition tells us as much about how we look at this complicated culture as the culture itself.
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Traditional motherhood has always been recognised, while women’s other achievements and bequests must continually prove their worth.
A self-described ‘platypoditudinarian’, Burrell figured out how to keep these animals in captivity – which allowed them to be studied.
Many former convicts changed their names and hid their past. But over the last 50 years, Australians have increasingly discovered – and embraced – convict relatives.
Government corruption and misspending inspired the medieval rebels depicted in The Uprising.
The idea of archaeology as adventure predates the discipline itself.
It’s easy to say now that paying the Vikings to go away ‘didn’t work’. But this obscures the fact paying off one Viking band didn’t ensure another would stop coming.
The controversy highlights a broader, escalating global movement demanding the return of African antiquities.
The Portuguese, Dutch and British empires all vied for control over these vital shipping lanes.
Rather than telling a single story, street names preserve several layers of public memory.
The United States came out of the Revolutionary War victorious. But building a new nation was very different from fighting a war.
The notebook preserves something that composer-centred histories often miss: the musical work taking place around Mozart, in this case by a young woman.
Vanbrugh’s houses deliver on sensory impact and stirred emotions – the wow factor.
Talk Like A Pirate Day is one of the internet’s favourite holidays. But who were these infamous seafarers and how did they really talk?
The nation’s first successful circulating library was established almost 300 years ago by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.
University campuses reflect the layers of architectural and landscape styles that have shaped our cities and suburbs.
New books by George Megalogenis and Paul Strangio consider 21st century Australia: a time of rapid social change with many politicians stuck ‘in a white-bloke past’.
Alice Duncan-Kemp’s books drew on a childhood in intimate contact with Mithaka people. Historian Tom Griffiths’ book, Alice’s dreaming, reminds us of her work.
Humans have spent thousands of years searching for a hangover cure – yet the ultimate price of heavy drinking remains unchanged.
If you’ve got problem neighbours, or your house and garden seem to suffer from bad luck, perhaps it’s time to try a magical solution.
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Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
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IE School of Humanities, IE University; California State University San Marcos
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Francesco Perono Cacciafoco is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Linguistics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University