Portrait of a Maori with tattooed face

Australasia

The Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Turkey, which is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by DOZIER Marc via Getty Images)

A new civilisation rises.

From bats and brawls to new links between colonies: the origins of Australian cricket.

A portrait of James Gordon Bennett, Jr (1841–1918), by Alexis Joseph Perignon, 1867. (Photo by The New York Historical Society/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Gordon Bennett’?

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Q&AWhy do Americans call the British ‘limeys’?

19th-century boxer Larry Foley

Q&AWhy do we say ‘happy as Larry’?

A painting in the cave of Altamira, Spain

The rise of Homo sapiens.

Tasmanian aborigines and the historic importance of the River Nile.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854.

BBC History Magazine

First ever kangaroo and dingo paintings to remain in UK

BBC History Magazine

Debate continues over truth behind 'oldest' Australia map

BBC History Magazine

Museum bid to acquire ‘new world’ George Stubbs paintings

British political cartoonist David Low. His caricatures of political figures including Hitler resulted in him being placed in the Nazi 'Black Book' – a list of prominent Britons who were to be arrested in the case of a successful invasion of Britain. (Photo by Felix Man/Picture Post/Getty Images

My history hero: Sir David Low (1891–1963).

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Sydney 1848.

Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images)

The Library“Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War.

Gold Mining At Mount Alexander

Convicts and colonisers: the early history of Australia.

Was there a guerrilla campaign waged by pro-German elements in what was then German New Guinea during WWI?.

Recreating a Victorian farm and the life of Captain Cook.

An illustration depicting inhabitants of Hawaii making an offering to Captain Cook

The LibraryThe mystery of Cook’s lost journal.