Australasia

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

Historian Claire Wright (Photo by Susan Papazian)

Fighting for the vote

Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

First World War

The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele

BDW39T The Australian XI of 1882, the cricket team toured England and won the only test at the Oval, the start of the Ashes legend. Image shot 1882. Exact date unknown.

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)

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

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

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