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

Second World War

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

Women of the Sarah Caswell Angell chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, engaging in war work activities to assist the Allied cause during the First World War, 1918. During their sessions they knitted, made hospital garments, sewed for French children, and made aviators' vests. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

First World War

A–Z of the First World War

A Red Cross worker in the United States wears a mask to reduce the risk of contracting or spreading the disease in 1918. Though doctors didn’t initially understand the nature of the infectious agent, ‘social distancing’ helped slow the propagation of the flu. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world

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

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

My favourite place: Western Australia

Australian troops head for Gallipoli in 1915

First World War

The myths of the battle of Gallipoli

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

My favourite place: Western Australia

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

General ancient history

A new civilisation rises

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Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele, August 1917. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

First World War

The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele

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