The British Empire Exhibition of 1924
The Exhibition held in Wembley in 1924 was intended to herald a great Imperial revival - in fact, as Kenneth Walthew shows here, it was to prove an escapist delight from post-war gloom and retrenchment.
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Psychohistory - An Australian Perspective
'Australia is a nation of immigrants' In the belief that manifestations of the unconscious can no longer be exempt from the attentions of the historian, John Rickard argues that psychohistory can illuminate this vital theme of Australian history.
Food as Dole
Maggie Black looks at the long tradition of giving food as alms.
Japan's Infatuations with the West
Japan had two great infatuations with the West: in the 1870s and during the American occupation of 1945-52. Forsaking traditional isolationism, Japan welcomed Western ideas and customs with open arms, and according to Jean-Pierre Lehmann, what resulted was not an ersatz Western culture but one that retained a distinct national identity
The Army and Society 1815-1914, Themes in British Social History
by Edward M. Spiers
Life under the Han Dynasty
Arthur Waley describes Chinese civilization in the first and second centuries AD.
Ned Kelly: The Genesis of a National Hero
Graham Seal explores the life and legend of Ned Kelly.
The Domestic Servant in Eighteenth Century England
by J. Jean Hecht
Engraving the Republic: Prints and Propaganda in the French Revolution
Popular art in the form of cartoons, caricatures and simple engravings offered great potential for political propaganda as the revolutionary leaders discovered.
Canada in Crisis: The Historical Background
"We belong to that little group of peoples destined... for a special role, the tragic role. Their anxiety is not whether they will be prosperous tomorrow, great or small, but whether they will be at all..." - Lionel Groulx, Quebec historian