The gingerbread house traces its origins to 18th-century Germany.
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Ginger, a staple spice in this Christmas confection, may help reduce the risk of colds and help with digestion.
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Napoleon has unleashed a torrent of objections to the film’s historical errors. More important for historians should be whether creative works pass the test of authenticity.
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The series addresses the role of samurai, what life was like for women and people of mixed heritage, and violence in Edo-period Japan, with varying degrees of accuracy.
Too Many Blackamoors by Heather Agyepong (2021).
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The exhibition celebrates and interrogates the cultural afterlives of Victorian Britain.
Men and boys, many dressed as women, attacking a turnpike gate in protest at charges at tollgates on public roads in west Wales. The Illustrated London News, 1843.
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The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
Waiting By The Window by Carl Holsøe.
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Hybrid flowers became a metaphor for sterility at the end of the 19th century.
Austrian-Jewish child refugees aboard the ship Prague on its arrival at Harwich during the Kindertransport in 1938.
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10,000 children, from mostly Jewish families, were saved from the Nazis by the Kindertransport visa-waiver scheme, which started in 1938.
Plato, Seneca and Aristotle in an illustration from a medieval manuscript circa 1325.
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The sheer quantity of data these processes will make available has significant ramifications for scholarship.
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Old and new money come into conflict in this American ‘prequel’ to Downton Abbey.
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Hundreds of Australians wrote to Jackie Kennedy after her husband was killed. The letters paint a revealing portrait of who we were and who we wanted to be.
Students become more emotionally engaged with history when it’s presented in an interactive way, research shows.
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Rather than have students memorize names and dates, this history curriculum invites students to grapple with real-life issues faced by people from the past.
Entries in the Springsure Native Mounted Police Diary.
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Frontier violence was widespread across colonial Queensland and has real life implications for contemporary Australia.
Taylor Swift performing her Eras tour.
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Men in the 1700s penned vehement letters about the way women dressed, slut-shaming them as “cork-rumped devils”.
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Like many other institutions, Scouts is caught in an awkward gap between tradition and modernity, as society grapples with colonial figures who were heroes to some, but not others.
The Rokeby Venus was slashed by a Suffragette and was chosen by Just Stop Oil for this reason.
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The group of climate activists are drawing on a history of public action to show that what they are doing is not new at all
Natalie Zemon Davis speaking in 2010.
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Davis practised microhistory – analysing an incident, life or location as a way into writing about wider society
The Great Fire of London by Josepha Jane Battlehooke (1675).
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Writers at the time were much more concerned with the fire’s destructive power than describing how it started in any detail.
A vintage Victorian Halloween postcard.
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Food was tied into multiple Halloween traditions that had love trouble at their core.
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Life on Our Planet has some important messages about the nature of evolution, and what the future may hold for us.
Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point Sydney, 1965.
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Fifty years ago today, after a prolonged and controversial period of construction, the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.