Essays & reportage
30 April 2025
How Kathleen Fitzpatrick began exercising her historical imagination
Books & arts
24 March 2025
A new biography wrestles with the challenge of capturing a decade and a half of Miles Franklin’s life
Essays & reportage
6 December 2024
Great Australians brought freshly researched history by fine writers and historians to a generation of Australians
Books & arts
31 October 2024
Triple-tested in its own kitchen, the Women’s Weekly’s recipes helped shape Australian tastes. But it had its rivals
Essays & reportage
18 June 2024
In search of the women behind the The Worker Cook Book
Essays & reportage
23 April 2024
A chance find reveals a trove of wartime letters and other memorabilia
Essays & reportage
7 March 2024
A stalwart supporter of the Labor leader emerges from history’s shadows
Essays & reportage
26 January 2024
A gift to a prime minister gives a glimpse of the life of an Australian toiler
Essays & reportage
1 December 2023
Where did all that water go?
Essays & reportage
29 September 2023
A chance find in a Melbourne collectibles shop transports the author back to 1988’s “celebration of a nation”
Books & arts
28 August 2023
Sydney’s best-known bohemian lived entirely by her own rules
Essays & reportage
13 June 2023
Was Barry Humphries’s least overbearing character really an ex-serviceman?
Essays & reportage
24 April 2023
Newly opened and unexpectedly vulnerable, the Australian War Memorial faced its first onslaught in January 1936
Essays & reportage
29 March 2023
What constitutes “evidence” of a queer life?
From the archive
1 February 2023
Why did this shy Sydneysider dot his city with a one-word poem?
Books & arts
8 November 2022
Alan Atkinson wants to rescue John and Elizabeth Macarthur from the judgements of history
Essays & reportage
29 September 2022
A small wooden box yields glimpses of vanished lives
From the archive
11 November 2021
A graveyard hints at the many people already mourning when the first world war broke out
Essays & reportage
24 April 2021
A photograph in the Australian War Memorial sends our contributor on a journey to a Tasmania rent by war
From the archive
11 November 2020
A flimsy piece of paper carried grave news for a family in wartime Balmain
