Living with a river rather than fighting it was how medieval people were able to survive
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Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.
After more than 100 years, the mystery of the man who inspired this famous comic verse novel has been solved.
Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein.
Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.
The president’s concerns about Air Force One seem less focused on safety and security and more on size and opulence.
Episode eight, Who Are You?, is a poignant portrayal of propaganda, collective resistance and military force.
Despite its central role in human history, pregnancy has often been overlooked in archaeology.
To many westerners, the Buddha and Buddhism are increasingly viewed as commodities to be bought and sold.
In casting himself as supreme leader and pope, Donald Trump inadvertently invoked the Christian understanding of the Antichrist.
This engaging exhibition tells the story of the Thames and London through time.
The tin would have made a 4,000km journey to thriving markets in the east Mediterranean.
Those who predicted the death of the pope in the 16th century often put their own lives at risk.
Philadelphia was the birthplace of Bread and Freedom, a weekly anarchist paper published by Jewish immigrants who felt their peers in New York were too moderate.
Anna Jagiellon’s story, set over four centuries ago, shows a woman could secure power through a vote, even in an era when female rulers were nearly unheard of.
The Met’s exhibition charts the evolution of the Black dandy from the 18th century to today. Here’s what to look for on the red carpet.
In the 1970s, a huge concrete dome was built on Runit Island to cover some 85,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste dumped by the US. It still leaks radiation today.
Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them seriously enables their success.
Trump often casts himself as a man of the people. But his statue garden feeds into a ‘great man’ approach to history at the expense of local and state history.
A landscape historian explains how a Victorian tradition became a tool for social change in 19th- and 20th-century Philadelphia.
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Professor of History, 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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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato
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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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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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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Chair in the History of Finance and Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, Prosperity and Resilience, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University