New archaeological techniques have uncovered the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists buried in unmarked graves in the Anglican Parish of St Mary's Church in Adelaide. Published in ...

An Australian art collective set out to “rewrite history” over the weekend by attaching bronze-acrylic plaques to statues of prominent colonial figures in the country’s southwest city of Perth. John ...

State Library of New South Wales/Photographer H.B. Solomons, 1887 The Conversation is running a series of articles on key figures in Australian political history, looking at the way they changed the ...

Anna Clark could have titled her book “Remaking Australian History”, for that is its narrative arc. She celebrates a change in the stories Australians can tell of their nation: from a heroic tale of ...

David Olusoga explores Australian colonial history and the Indian indenture system. David Olusoga reveals how the loss of the American colonies led to the colonization of Australia and how the Indian ...

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 ...

Anson Brothers Studio, Fern Tree Gully, Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1887. Albumen print. Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, ...

A statue in Melbourne of British naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 charted Sydney’s coast, was sawn off at the ankles, while a Queen Victoria monument in the city’s Queen Victoria Gardens was ...