The Anzac biscuit is a cultural icon, invented after the first world war. But women still provided necessities and small comforts to the ANZACs.
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A new exhibition at Colorado State University highlights 100 years of women’s work.
Despite the strong popularity of the ‘Moko’ drums in the Alor-Pantar archipelago, their history and origins are still relatively obscure and seem to fade into the mists of time. Research reveals why.
Do you prefer yours with sultanas and spices, or Vegemite and cheese? However you eat them, hot cross buns reflect centuries of tradition – and superstition.
Russia’s war on Ukraine continues, despite US attempts to broker a ceasefire. Russia has repurposed history to build its power since the 1500s – that continues, too.
If we are willing to adapt and innovate – and build new houses – high immigration and housing affordability can co-exist.
The artefacts in focus are a set of four clay trays, plain in design and apparently quite utilitarian.
Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern societies realize. Glacier loss adds to the challenge today.
Like the beaver it nearly wiped out, HBC made Canada into its home by fundamentally transforming its environment, and no bankruptcy court will liquidate that legacy.
There’s an impulse by universities and media to inaccurately document hip-hop’s history. The genre is, in part, a response to that imprecision, a professor of hip-hop writes.
New analysis challenges the idea that only elites were buried in passage tombs.
This woman might have been a priestess of the goddess Ceres.
These were hot, dimly lit, crowded, smoke and sweat-filled spaces where the music ricocheted off surfaces and fed directly back into the dancing bodies.
The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to the 19th century.
The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.
Among the over 800 Iron Age metal artefacts are finds that prove Iron Age Brits had conact with Europe.
Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine consumption must be fundamentally reconsidered.
Many Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and it isn’t that way in the rest of the world.
Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.
Detroit’s Black population grew sixfold from 1910 to 1920, and many businesses that sprouted to welcome the newcomers flourished.
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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