Convent lending formed part of the everyday functioning of Vienna’s economy in the 15th century.
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Who was the ‘real’ Robin Hood – community champion or violent criminal? Those in power and the people who shared his tales in pubs have long disagreed.
A history of Afghanistan told through the people who stayed and worked at the Kabul Intercontinental.
Queen Bona Sforza transformed royal finances and expanded a dynasty’s wealth, becoming one of the most powerful women in early modern eastern Europe.
Satrapi’s masterpiece offers profound insights into Iranian society.
A new database includes more than 850 dissertations and theses, spanning everything from baseball slang and cigarette smoking to postage stamps and ballpark organs.
Why not give them a go – you might help keep a traditional skill alive.
Victorians were acutely aware of the health problems which could come from devotion to the ‘gospel of work’.
Ben Franklin led an effort to print paper bills in the American colonies, after a coin shortage constrained the economy.
Small stores, local produce and the return of the personal shopping assistant: supermarkets are starting to look like they did in the 1800s.
This mysterious Viking-age hoard lay buried for more than a millenium. Unearthed by an amateur metal detectorist, it is now on show in Sydney.
A British ban stripped thousands of skilled mariners of their livelihoods overnight – and gave Washington a chance to turn the tide.
Studying the stories of our ancestors, whatever their background, is a deeply enriching experience.
A smallpox epidemic in the 1830s brought a new and deadly disease to the southeastern frontier. Aboriginal people responded with three distinct techniques.
Tracing the history of this emotion can help us understand how it came to be empowering for LGBTQIA+ people – even as certain groups try and hijack it.
From who gets to vote to how people travel and where taxpayer dollars are funneled, politicians and urban planners wield maps to control public imagination.
Without intervention, the important surviving physical evidence and the opportunity for commemoration will be lost.
During and after WWI, thousands of American women acted as mothers for displaced French children. A war studies research fellow weighs in with considerations for teaching this vital, often overlooked part of transatlantic wartime history.
The Blazing World is an amazing vision which ends as bewilderingly as it begins, making the reader’s head spin.
Across the 19th and 20th centuries, urban residents developed a range of strategies to manage extreme heat in densely built environments.
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