When the Cold War came to an end, neoliberals appealed to nature in order to justify inequality.
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Herodotus showed how human beliefs and choices affected the fate of nations. His insights are still relevant.
Men’s glasses are having a moment, thanks to the internet’s favourite little descriptor.
A fire destroyed the South’s largest surviving antebellum mansion – exposing the tensions between history and profit.
Huge upheavals of the land and sea were facts of life in the ancient world, just as they are today.
Many African abolitionists who fought and lost their lives in the struggle against slavery have gone unacknowledged.
John Hirst’s body of work is an implicit but powerful defence of evidence-based history at a time when the truth is under attack.
Jessie Murph wants you to love her ‘like its 1965’ – but 1965 was a pretty terrible time to be a woman.
Thousands of years ago, adults and children left their marks on soft rock surfaces deep in this cave in GunaiKurnai Country.
Whistling on a ship was taboo in the 18th century as it was believed to stir the winds.
The hip-hop group is directing the world’s attention to Gaza. But it’s not the first Irish republican group to protest the oppression of another colonised peoples.
People have been fermenting food since before the written word.
The health dangers of asbestos were already well known, but it took a David and Goliath legal battle to hold the mining industry accountable.
Painters across the centuries have turned this most intimate of transgressions into art, inviting viewers to become voyeurs of passion, guilt and desire.
It’s up for debate what the big shoes found at Magna mean and that’s an integral part of archaeological research
The excavation of Troy’s rubbish is yielding arhceological treasure: how ordinary people lived several millenia ago.
Medieval people would have interacted with the embroidered players, giving them voice and enabling them to join the conversation.
Historically, fur has mostly marked status, wealth and luxury.
Over the course of three nights in 1422, the woman had visions of aggressive pets and insatiable worms tormenting a beloved friend.
In a pre-internet world, T-shirts provided a platform to make silent causes visible.
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Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol
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IE School of Humanities, IE University; California State University San Marcos
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open 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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