Riccardo Bavaj introduces and discusses spatial history through the lens of the different primary sources that historians use

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What is Spatial History?

Paul Cartledge discusses the diﬀerences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history.

Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, Paul Pickering explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance

Sounds of Liberty Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world

Over the past century, while democratic governments have become more efficient, they have also become more disconnected from the people they purport to represent. John Matsusaka discusses how direct democracy can bring policies back in line with the will of the people.populism

Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge

As a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) occupies a crucial position in histories of European primitivism. Linda Goddard discusses his wide-ranging literary output, which included journalism, travel writing, art criticism, and essays on aesthetics, religion, and politics.

Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin

The striped velvet pantaloons of James, an enslaved man in the South Carolina upcountry, might not seem like an important legal artifact, but they are. Laura F. Edwards discusses how the legalities of textiles recast our understanding of Americans’ relationship to law and the economy in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. 

James and His Striped Velvet Pantaloons

Ramie Targoff discusses Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance.

Renaissance Woman

Beryl Pong discusses British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future.

British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime

Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington discuss Australian prose poetry written over the last fifty years.

The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry

Artist Si Sapsford discusses her new book which looks at the installation of her mechanical piece Civil Unrest.

Civil Unrest

David Curtin discusses the visible signatures of Mirror Stars in observations for the first time. If the dark and visible photon have a small kinetic mixing, SM matter is captured in Mirror Star cores, giving rise to an optical signal similar to but much fainter than white dwarfs. This distinctive signature is a smoking gun of Mirror Stars and could be discovered in optical and X-ray searches.

How To Discover Mirror Stars

In educational research, girls are frequently depicted as success stories, able to effortlessly navigate academic excellence as empowered females. However, these depictions lack nuance and often fail to capture the complexity of young women’s experiences as they shift from compulsory schooling into higher education.

Feminine subjectivities and aspirational learner identities

Marc Fleurbaey and Brody Viney consider and assesses the concept of social externalities through human interdependence, in relation to the economic analysis of externalities in the tradition of Pigou and Arrow, including the analysis of the commons. It argues that there are limits to economic analysis.

Social Externalities and Economic Analysis

Tipping points exist in social, ecological and climate systems and those systems are increasingly causally intertwined in the Anthropocene. Climate change and biosphere degradation have advanced to the point where we are already triggering damaging environmental tipping points, and to avoid worse ones ahead will require finding and triggering positive tipping points towards sustainability in coupled social, ecological and technological systems.

Tipping Positive Change to Avoid Climate Tipping Points

Margaret MacMillan discusses the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. MacMillan explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war.

War: How Conflict Shaped Us

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