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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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.

Australia’s colonial experience, reflecting Biggar’s thesis, is a mixture of the good and the bad. We need to hold both truths in our mind and not succumb to polemical narratives of either the ...

The vandalism unfolded in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Australia Day is a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of racism and oppression. By Mike Ives Some Australians were in no mood ...

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 ...