History
What Is Happening and What Has Caused the Unrest?
Iran on the brink: economic collapse, protest, and international reaction.
Inside Scoop: The 2,500-Year History Of Ice Cream
The highest per capita consumption in the world is in New Zealand, followed by the US and Australia. The next four countries are famous for being cold: Finland, Sweden, Canada and Denmark.
Babblers, Cops and Quacks
The sometimes dark – but often amusing – origins of nicknames for jobs.
An Expert Revisits the Errors
At 1,500 feet, the ground proximity warning sounded only seconds before impact, and the DC-10 struck the lower slopes of Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
This Colonisation Obsession Is Historically Illiterate
An argument for historical proportion, global context and intellectual honesty.
Why Do Cricket Balls Have To Be So Hard?
While a layperson may view cricket as a non-contact sport, the truth is batting and fielding require great courage, considering the hardness of the ball and the speeds it can reach.
This Isn’t History – It’s Politics Backdated
History should inform today’s debates, not be reshaped to legitimise them. If constitutional change is proposed, it should be argued openly, on its merits, and decided democratically – not presented as an historical fact that cannot be questioned.
Flashback: Do You Remember How You Felt in 2019?
This is history’s constant lesson: no one… no country, no empire, no ruler… is entitled to the top spot forever.
Dickens the Man
To be sure, his daughter Katey was correct: Dickens was a wicked man – a very wicked man.
Bastion Point – the Untold Context
Seen in full, Bastion Point is not a story of unbroken bad faith. It is a complex episode shaped by changing laws, incentives, and expectations – and one that was ultimately resolved through return, compensation, and apology.
The Strange Death of Knowing Stuff
When I read that some educationalists have decreed the novel is now considered ‘problematic’ with its ‘white saviour’ narrative and use of racial slurs, then I can’t but help but despair at how quickly something so culturally significant can be memory holed in the pursuit of progressive ideals.
The Millennia-Long Journey from Christmas to Exmass
For centuries, Christians barely took notice of Jesus’ birth.
The Birth of the Classic English Christmas Dinner
Joan Fitzpatrick Loughborough University Charles Dickens popularised the traditional, English Christmas in 1843 in his novel A Christmas Carol, when Bob Cratchit and his family sit down on Christmas Day to eat a dinner of goose with mashed potatoes and apple sauce accompanied by sage and onion stuffing and followed
German Soldiers Made First Move in the Christmas Truce
William Keylor Boston University The Christmas Truce is no stranger to popular entertainment – 2014 more than any other as its 100th anniversary is marked. The famous moment when British and German soldiers climbed out of the trenches in peace on Christmas Day 1914 has been replicated and ruminated upon in