Australasia

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

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

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

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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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&A Why do we say ‘Gordon Bennett’?

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Q&A Why do Americans call the British ‘limeys’?

19th-century boxer Larry Foley

Q&A Why do we say ‘happy as Larry’?