From the archive
1 December 2023
How does the former secretary of state feel about being called a war criminal?
Essays & reportage
24 November 2023
What guidance for the challenges facing the planet can we find in the words of one of Australia’s greatest prime ministers?
Essays & reportage
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
Books & arts
21 November 2023
Russia’s war against Ukraine is generating a rich historiography
Books & arts
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
Books & arts
20 October 2023
Nothing is preordained in Kate Fullagar’s dual biography
Books & arts
14 October 2023
A mix of ingenuity, creativity, contradiction and collaboration unsettles the much-vaunted concept of “the West”
Essays & reportage
10 October 2023
Regardless of the outcome of the Voice referendum, Australia’s past will continue to unsettle the present
Essays & reportage
10 October 2023
This year’s winner is another challenge to critics of the youngest of the prizes
Books & arts
3 October 2023
What does history tell us about automation’s impact on jobs and inequality?
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
29 September 2023
Historian Graeme Davison explores powerful forces below history’s horizon
Essays & reportage
17 September 2023
Sent to Australia as an “enemy alien” by Churchill’s government, Bern Brent spent decades challenging conventional accounts of the internees’ lives
Books & arts
8 September 2023
Doc Evatt may have won the battle over banning the Communist Party but Bob Menzies was the ultimate victor
Essays & reportage
8 September 2023
A new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. Here’s what it might look like.
Books & arts
5 September 2023
The Great War brought the drive for international trade and cooperation to a disastrous end
Books & arts
28 August 2023
Sydney’s best-known bohemian lived entirely by her own rules
Books & arts
23 August 2023
A distinguished historian of France scrutinises the trial of Vichy leader Marshal Pétain and its aftermath
Books & arts
18 August 2023
Historian Simon Schama spent the pandemic researching smallpox, cholera and plague
Books & arts
10 August 2023
Two years after their return to power, the Taliban aren’t living up to many of their promises — and the West’s disengagement isn’t helping
Books & arts
9 August 2023
Two talented Liberal senators paved the way for future female ministers
Books & arts
8 August 2023
A new survey of heritage protection highlights Australia’s uneven record as it prepares to host next month’s International Council on Monuments and Sites assembly
Books & arts
26 July 2023
A fascinating account of nineteenth-century phrenologists illuminates how ideas spread
Essays & reportage
19 July 2023
A long-forgotten experiment throws light on the challenges facing Australian education in the 2020s
Books & arts
4 July 2023
Historian Ruth Ross, the Waitangi Treaty and historical mythmaking are the subjects of a provocative account of New Zealand’s founding document that throws light on Australian…
National affairs
15 June 2023
In the aftermath of the worst of Covid-19, what does history tell us about how best to deal with the experience?
Books & arts
13 June 2023
Two new books excavate everyday experiences of the Cultural Revolution
Essays & reportage
29 May 2023
How William Cooper became “the man who stood up to Hitler”
Essays & reportage
24 May 2023
Inside Story editor Peter Browne introduces a memoir of Australia’s fifties by contributor Robert Milliken, who died last Sunday
Books & arts
16 May 2023
English writer Alethea Hayter pioneered a new way of framing history