Books & arts
7 August 2026
A historian discovers her own relatives in the story of a First Nations man
Books & arts
31 October 2025
The curious afterlife of Samuel Pepys’s diary
Books & arts
17 April 2025
What can colonial portraits tell us about the past?
Books & arts
21 February 2025
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum hasn’t quite nailed the problem, or the possible solutions
Books & arts
17 July 2024
Nicholas Thomas asks new questions about the women and cultures represented in the French artist’s work
Books & arts
28 May 2024
What brought the Age of Enlightenment to an end?
Books & arts
5 April 2024
The earliest bluestockings pioneered a new way of thinking about women like themselves. But what about the wider world?
Books & arts
14 October 2023
A mix of ingenuity, creativity, contradiction and collaboration unsettles the much-vaunted concept of “the West”
Essays & reportage
30 August 2021
The burial sites of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip suggest new ways of thinking about early Australia
Retrospective
8 June 2021
The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a reminder of the challenges it raises for historians