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Do you think your ancestors’ lives would make a great historical novel

Writer and historian Dr Naomi Parry introduces the work of Mandy Gwan.

A mountain-top view of feminism through the ages

Keely Jobe’s PhD project is centred on an important moment in the history of a rural lesbian separatist community in NSW.

Opening the archives of White Australia

How a biography brought me to family history

How writing an entry for a supplementary volume in the Australia Dictionary of Biography uncovered an extraordinary family story.

A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France

Establishing national borders has long been an inexact science, writes Dr Imogen Wegman.

Hidden history of Chinese Australian women

‘Your government makes us go’: the hidden history of Chinese Australian women at a time of anti-Asian immigration laws.

Tracing the lives of early Chinese families in colonial Australia

Coordinator of the Diploma of Family History at the University of Tasmania, Kate Bagnall, turns her attention closer to home.

Understanding colonial maps

Early Tasmanian land charts contain some fascinating details, if you know where to look.

New research finds widespread violence against Australian mosques

We cannot understand the Christchurch massacre without comprehending the Australian context, writes Professor Nicole L. Asquith.

White continent, white blokes: shedding Antarctica's exclusionary past

Associate Professor Dr Meredith Nash and Dr Robyn Moore explore ways to make Antarctic research more inclusive.

As the world watches, Myanmar votes

National renewal is on hold while the government focuses on this weekend’s election

Is it time for a Green New Deal in Australia?

The general idea is to create jobs while rebuilding societies

How Indigenous knowledge can be embedded into the curriculum

... and why it matters

‘The workload was intense’

What parents told us about remote learning

Why QAnon is attracting so many followers in Australia

... and how it can be countered

How Bob Brown taught us to talk about, and care for, the ‘wilderness'

Part of series on key figures in Australian political history

The enduring myth of the hunter-gatherer

Secondary school textbooks teach our kids that Aboriginal Australians were nomadic

Leigh Sales showed us the abuse women cop online

When are we going to stop tolerating misogyny?

Will the Najib Razak verdict be a watershed moment for Malaysia?

What is needed is the abandonment of a system built on racial superiority

Why do 'living people' believe they have immunity from the law?