When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors issuing decrees and missionaries working to end local traffic in enslaved people.

This paper covers a broad range of complex and related dynamics that collectively contributed to the conquests of Mexico and Peru by the Spanish. 

I first read John Hirst (1942-2016) as an undergraduate in the late 1990s as part of a subject on 19th-century Australian history. We discussed convict history and explored contrasting views about its role and function in the early colonies. What was life as a convict like?

Buried away in the correspondence columns of last week’s Sunday Age, a former history teacher’s letter “Where’s our history?” started an intense and confused debate about a “threat” by the national curriculum to Australian history in schools.

This essay will address the advantages and disadvantages of historical feature films and will compare them to other representations of the past.

Despite being under constant siege, today’s nation of Israel is home to an ancient Hebrew culture to which Judaism, Christianity and Western civilisation owe an incalculable debt, writes David Furse-Roberts.