Woman At Her Toilette by Berthe Morisot (c. 1875–1880).
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Jewellery and fashion accessories have been popular tokens of love for centuries.
Would flattery from an AI set your heart aflutter?
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Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.
Bendigo’s ‘Moon Face’ dragon in front of Bendigo’s Gwan Dai Temple (now demolished) at Easter 1900.
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Some of Australia’s Federation-era dragons are among the oldest surviving imperial dragons in the world.
Detail from a 14th-century miniature Greek manuscript depicting scenes from the life of Alexander the Great.
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Digitising manuscripts may promise preservation and accessibility, but technology does not future-proof our access to the past.
Studying this discipline helps you understand how society works.
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The boards that oversee the education of students enrolled in Florida’s public colleges and universities are trying to restrict enrollment in sociology courses on those campuses.
Border conflicts, spanning different time periods and places, are behind many of the big international disputes today.
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Religious, racial and class-based differences often get politicized.
Looted ornaments from the Asante empire are held in several European museums.
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A loan deal for the Asante artefacts offers an opportunity for these objects to return home.
Callum Turner in Masters of the Air.
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The American military buildup in Britain –popularly known as the “friendly invasion” – was an unprecedented moment in British history.
King Alfred the Great inciting the Anglo Saxons to repel the invasion of the Danes.
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Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on
A Communist Party supporter holds a portrait of Josef Stalin in Red Square in Moscow.
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The whitewashing of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his crimes is crucial for understanding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperialist ideology and goals.
Detail from The Book of Kells, folio 291v.
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The pages of The Book of Kells certainly contain some of the elements that have been used to identify drug use in modern and contemporary art.
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The Australian War memorial recently announced it will extend its exhibition to recognise the Frontier Wars, where Aboriginal resistance fighters fought in retaliation to massacres and other attacks.
Suffragette Rosa May Billinghurst used her tricycle wheelchair to obstruct police.
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Disability is often omitted from popular narratives of important figures from history.
Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873)
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A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of the 16th-century father of modern astronomy, who demonstrated that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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The evolution of sexual behaviour is a long and complicated tale. Taking a long view involves a degree of speculation.
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Since the Victorian age, tobacco has been a form of stress relief.
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The 24-hour system was independently invented multiple times.
The Mari Lwyd makes a welcome appearance in Chepstow.
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The Mari Lwyd and the plygain are two prominent Welsh traditions celebrated over Christmas and the new year.
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Early products focused on tanning. Others roasted you like a chicken. Which of these claims can you remember?
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Ridley Scott’s film is not intended to paint a romanticised image of Napoleon, but rather immerse the viewer in the dilemmas and complexities of power.