Why, 200 years ago, was a five-year-old girl in Scotland painstakingly embroidering her idea of Australia, and what can ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Two monuments symbolizing Australia's colonial past were damaged by protesters on Thursday ahead of an increasingly polarizing national holiday that marks the anniversary ...

Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many foodstuffs that do not appear in official records were being eaten, potentially as an informal means to ...

Historian Katherine Biber invites us to see the lives, crimes and deaths of Jimmy and Joe Governor in the context of bigger national ambitions – and colonial racism.

Around days like the King's Birthday and Australia Day, when tension is heightened around how we remember our history, this group goes after statues of Australia’s colonial figures.

Two monuments symbolizing Australia’s colonial past were damaged by protesters on Thursday ahead of an increasingly polarizing national holiday that marks the anniversary of British settlement.

The role of rum in colonial Australia “Rum was a currency because everyone was addicted to it,” says Matt Murphy, author of the book Rum: A Distilled History of Colonial Australia.This meant ...

The holiday marks the anniversary of the Jan 26 1788 landing of European settlers in Sydney Harbour but also the beginning of a period of colonial oppression of indigenous peoples.

Borderlands e-journal Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008 Marked bodies: a corporeal history of colonial Australia This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

The role of rum in colonial Australia “Rum was a currency because everyone was addicted to it,” says Matt Murphy, author of the book Rum: A Distilled History of Colonial Australia.This meant ...