My research shows that chess created a space in which players – regardless of their skin colour – could engage as equals.
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NASA’s Artemis II mission took decades of policymaking, engineering and financial support.
The Sex Pistols’ trajectory eventually resembled that of many rock acts they had ostensibly sought to disrupt.
Favouring restraint over spectacle, these stories offer intimate portraits of people shaped by history, disappointment, tragedy, grief and the long shadows of secrecy.
The financial year still starts around this time.
The estate has been the seat of the Lascelles family since 1738.
Long before today’s decline in alcohol consumption, rum played a central role in Canada’s economy, shaping labour relations in the fisheries and fur trade.
Betsy Ross probably did not sew the first American flag, but she was one of many craftswomen whose wartime labor helped build a nation.
Once I had spotted a 200-year-old error, I was able to join the dots.
As a child, Catharine Coleborne’s mother spent a year in bed with polio. Stories like hers reveal why we can’t afford to go backwards on vaccination.
Our research has built pictures of people involved in the events of 1381.
These 5 books explore Iran’s Islamic Revolution through religion, politics, mythology and personal experience – and take you inside its prisons.
St Patrick was actually a Roman Briton, who was kidnapped by Irish raiders, spirited across the sea and enslaved, aged 16. How did he become Ireland’s national hero?
According to one tradition, both men knew one another closely and were each involved in promulgating Christianity in Ireland.
From World War II to the Apollo era, the space shuttle program and today’s privately developed commercial rockets, the landscape of spaceflight has changed dramatically.
Early Chinese communities might seem to have left little tangible trace. But such an absence does not necessarily mean the absence of a Chinese history.
A series of confessions, obtained under torture have shaped the order’s legacy in film.
Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of the Singapore Stone. Now that software is ready.
The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.
If archives were destroyed and public history suppressed, where else might the past be found?
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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