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.
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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.
Bréhémont, clayn, chalamon or craponne… Never heard of them? These cheeses of old speak volumes about France’s history of cheesemaking.
On September 11 2001 New York City’s skyline was suddenly and dramatically altered.
It’s an attractively neat idea. But when it came to paying Roman soldiers, coins did the job admirably.
Uncertainty over whether the seat of the papacy would remain in the city explains why Rome was a late developer when it came to palace-building, lagging behind Florence and Venice.
Both families and the church assumed that the purpose of marriage was to have children. Couples who did not conceive often faced questions and scrutiny.
Historical events hold lessons about collaboration and competition in space that could inform how experts plan for the discovery of life beyond Earth.
There are fewer students continuing to study history in Year 12 than ever before. But that doesn’t mean they don’t value it.
John Mase Smith probably holds the record for the briefest second marriage, heading back to his first wife at 5am the morning after his bigamous wedding in 1849.
A team of historians, archaeologists and forensic anthropologists is trying to identify 15 German soldiers who were unceremoniously dumped in a ditch after trying to help the British capture Philadelphia.
In the tapestry’s early scenes depicting what happened before 1066, William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson helped each other.
The vast majority of people around the world are lactose intolerant. But American propaganda and scientific biases have made milk and dairy products a staple in global diets.
For centuries, the world’s entire coffee supply flowed through one Yemeni port.
Even though he wasn’t a woman, Bal Gandharva’s vision of the ‘traditional wife’ was given supremacy over every other form of womanhood.
Harris is a superb storyteller, and Agrippa is a compelling read.
The women of the Bayeux tapestry tell a story as compelling and important as the main depiction of the battle.
More inclusive history teaching doesn’t just add new topics to the curriculum, it values the languages of all learners.
The most famous Scottish cannibal was Sawney Bean, a 16th-century man who, with his wife and children, supposedly killed and ate travellers to the Ayrshire coast.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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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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