Long before synthetic fertilizers, the global guano trade reshaped farming, fueled American expansion and exposed the hidden human costs of feeding the modern world.
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Women played a crucial role in all aspects of the development and endurance of the state, including some who ruled the country in their own right.
The language of burnout turns up in agricultural records from more than 200 years ago, long before the term entered popular use.
Control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus strait was life and death for ancient Athens. Waterways are no less important – and contentious – today.
The Greeks didn’t locate their deep past in far-off fantasy lands. These stories happened in places all around them.
In the absence of proper teaching, people are adopting distorted, nostalgic far right narratives.
Attempts to transpose the locations of The Odyssey accurately to modern maps have proved difficult.
The 70-metre embroidery will be displayed at the British Museum from September.
How will a new generation of viewers respond to the Ingalls family and their experiences of life in an America that was still taking shape?
History shows immigration policy in Australia is full of yes-no contradictions: fear jostling with hope, exclusion with openness.
A new study shows that workplace priorities for Australian historians make it harder for their work to reach Australian readers – despite strong public interest.
Until recently, it was impossible to directly assess the diet and mobility of ancient Greek animals and settle this debate.
Everyone knows Robin Hood – but almost no one has heard of the medieval outlaws who may have inspired stories about him.
Melville was 14 when her father went down with the ship in April 1912.
The reflecting pool builds on a landscaping tradition of organising nature into orderly lines and geometric shapes. Nature did not always play along.
A partisan judiciary, arbitrary power, officials beyond the reach of the people – these are the grievances that drove a revolution.
Coming out on television in the 1970s was a radical act of protest.
Hantavirus cruise ship passengers have left Perth quarantine. But how might quarantine affect them? History has some answers.
Dragons may be fictional, but the struggle for the throne, influence and legitimacy in House of the Dragons has roots in conflicts that shaped real history.
The source was a newly discovered bacterium called Legionella pneumophila that can thrive in household pipes, whirlpools, cooling units and outdoor fountains.
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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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PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol
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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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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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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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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
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Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University
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Francesco Perono Cacciafoco is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Linguistics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University