Portrait of a Maori with tattooed face

Australasia

A composite image of a dodo in front of a sea and a lighthouse in the background.

How Tibbles the cat single-handedly caused a Victorian-era extinction

Penal transportation to Australia: everything you wanted to know.

Illustration by Rose Wilkinson

William Douglas: infamous bushranger, prize-fighter and reader of skulls.

An emu stares into the camera

Q&AWhat was the Emu War?

Aboriginal Australians: a modern history.

Black and white image of a group of five men sat on the floor in a room in Fiji. One of them is pointing at another with a serious expression on his face.

Cakobau: the first (and last) king of Fiji.

Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?.

Troops pictured during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War

First World War

Gallipoli: 5 reasons why the First World War campaign was a failure

Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

Female activism: 10 remarkable protests from around the world.

Diana, Princess of Wales, played by Emma Corrin in Netflix's 'The Crown'

The Crown S4 E6 real history: Charles and Diana’s 1983 royal tour of Australia & the start of ‘Dianamania’

Relatives wave off convicts being sent from England

Your guide to...transportation to Australia

Prospectors pan for gold in Siberia during the 19th century.

Where did the major gold rushes of the 19th century happen? And why were people so keen to join the gold rush?.

Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world.

View of the Norse Buildings, L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Newfoundland. (Photo by Alamy)

Medieval globetrotters.

Tectonic foliation in metamorphic rocks at Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Getty Images)

How the world made us.

Painting of Bligh and those loyal to him being cast adrift from the Bounty in a small boat

Mutiny on the Bounty: the incredible tale of how castaway captain William Bligh made it back to England

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past?.

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: a historical perspective.

Fighting for the vote.

Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele.

The Ashes urn, a cricketing trophy

In pictures: The Ashes through history

Historian and geographer Jared Diamond

Books interview with Jared Diamond: “With countries, as with people, crises attract attention”.

British Indian soldiers stand at attention prior to inspection at Singapore, December 1941. (Photo by Alamy)

World War Two’s ‘ordinary’ soldiers.

Julian Baggini and Justin Champion. (Photo by Fran Monks)

A global history of philosophy.

James Cook, commander of HMS 'Endeavour', meets Tahitians in an 18th-century engravings. The ship's naturalist Joseph Banks declared the Polynesian island "the truest picture of an Arcadia". (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

How the arrival of Europeans rocked the native cultures of Tahiti and Australia.

Captain Cook's Endeavour podcast

Captain Cook’s Endeavour.

Mrs Frederica Bell, photographed with her children Freda, Roy and 'King' on the Pacific island of Raoul. (Photo courtesy of Lydia Syson/Mr Peacock's Possessions)

A real Swiss Family Robinson?.

A still from the 2017 film Viceroy's House

Raj nostalgia: reconsidering the stories through which we view empire.

Australian troops head for Gallipoli in 1915

The myths of the battle of Gallipoli.

Fremantle's High Street, with 19th-century buildings.

My favourite place: Western Australia