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Essays & reportage Bill Gammage & Ken Inglis 28 February 2012 Ken Inglis and Bill Gammage pay tribute to the distinguished historian, and occasional Inside Story contributor, Hank Nelson, who died earlier this month
Duncan Hewitt 1 February 2012 Shanghai doesn’t understand the appeal of its oldest precinct, writes Duncan Hewitt Essays & reportage Henry Reynolds 24 January 2012 Australia’s attachment to a flag with the Union Jack in the top corner puts it in odd company David Hayes 1 November 2011 An encampment around St Paul’s Cathedral in London casts a new light on this icon of British wartime defiance. But the epic days of the 1940s may have something to teach the… National affairs Brian Costar 6 October 2011 Out of the clash of interests in federal parliament in 1911 came an enduring electoral reform, writes Brian Costar. An update is long overdue
Books & arts Kylie Mirmohamadi & Susan K. Martin 5 October 2011 Susan K. Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi look at a sub-genre of popular writing that spanned the globe from London to Melbourne
Essays & reportage Don Whitington 4 October 2011 Fifty years ago Australia’s major parties had limited resources and few staff. But one party had an edge over the other, writes Don Whitington in this essay first… National affairs Frank Bongiorno 20 September 2011 Sixty years ago, H.V. Evatt successfully resisted strong public support for draconian anti-communist legislation, writes Frank Bongiorno. Is there a lesson for Labor in 2011? Books & arts Lorenzo Veracini 16 September 2011 Julia Clancy-Smith’s Mediterraneans looks at a neglected period with contemporary resonance, writes Lorenzo Veracini Books & arts Judith Brett 13 September 2011 Judith Brett reviews Heather Henderson’s collection of letters from her father, Robert Menzies
Essays & reportage Nicholas Gruen 25 August 2011 Manning Clark went on a grand quest, writes Nicholas Gruen. But perhaps it was the journey rather than the arrival that mattered
Books & arts Tim Rowse 23 June 2011 Let’s allow our history to be complicated, argues Tim Rowse in this review of two new books about black–white relations Books & arts Ian McShane 21 June 2011 Two books look at places where social ecologies take root and flourish National affairs Brian Toohey 9 June 2011 Australians have as little idea about why we are fighting in Afghanistan as they had about why we entered the first world war, writes Brian Toohey Frank Bongiorno 5 June 2011 Another history war under another conservative government. Frank Bongiorno reports from London
National affairs David Stephens 22 May 2011 Drawing on newly released FOI documents, David Stephens examines a case of over-building in Canberra
Books & arts Glenn Nicholls 12 May 2011 Deported after the first world war, Paul Dubotzki had created a remarkable record of life as an internee, writes Glenn Nicholls International Richard Tanter 28 April 2011 Richard Tanter reports on a controversial intervention in Indonesian history, culture and memory Books & arts Jill Kitson 23 April 2011 Jill Kitson reviews a new account of the wartime leadership of the diminutive Australian prime minister Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 7 April 2011 Resistance and collaboration were rarely clearcut in occupied France
Summer season Shakira Hussein 30 March 2011 Slavery, foot-binding and duelling have lost their status as “honourable,” but will some other practices prove harder to reverse?
Frank Bongiorno 28 March 2011 In London Frank Bongiorno looks at why Lionel Logue is portrayed as an Aussie larrikin in The King’s Speech Books & arts Klaus Neumann 28 January 2011 The Impossible Border brings an important period in German history out of the shadow of the Nazi era, writes Klaus Neumann Books & arts Brett Evans 27 January 2011 Brett Evans reviews Tony Judt’s The Memory Chalet Books & arts Brian McFarlane 27 January 2011 Brian McFarlane reviews a novel by an Australian, set in Britain and first published in India
Books & arts Grant Evans 22 November 2010 Grant Evans reviews an account of the Great Famine, another major blow to the Mao myth
Essays & reportage Frank Sear 18 November 2010 Despite the best efforts of its overseers, two and a half centuries of excavation have left Pompeii vulnerable to weather and human activity, writes Frank Sear International John Besemeres 15 November 2010 The fall of the Berlin Wall was the iconic event in the unravelling of European communism. But it might not have happened without the strikes across Poland eight years earlier,… Books & arts Jill Kitson 27 October 2010 Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer Frank Bongiorno 29 September 2010 In London, Frank Bongiorno ponders the life of a highly productive expatriate who eventually returned to Australia, and those who have followed him