Essays & Reportage
17 September 2023
Sent to Australia as an “enemy alien” by Churchill’s government, Bern Brent spent decades challenging conventional accounts of the internees’ lives
Books & Arts
8 September 2023
Doc Evatt may have won the battle over banning the Communist Party but Bob Menzies was the ultimate victor
Essays & Reportage
8 September 2023
A new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. Here’s what it might look like.
Books & Arts
5 September 2023
The Great War brought the drive for international trade and cooperation to a disastrous end
Books & Arts
28 August 2023
Sydney’s best-known bohemian lived entirely by her own rules
Books & Arts
23 August 2023
A distinguished historian of France scrutinises the trial of Vichy leader Marshal Pétain and its aftermath
Books & Arts
18 August 2023
Historian Simon Schama spent the pandemic researching smallpox, cholera and plague
Books & Arts
10 August 2023
Two years after their return to power, the Taliban aren’t living up to many of their promises — and the West’s disengagement isn’t helping
Books & Arts
9 August 2023
Two talented Liberal senators paved the way for future female ministers
Books & Arts
8 August 2023
A new survey of heritage protection highlights Australia’s uneven record as it prepares to host next month’s International Council on Monuments and Sites assembly
Books & Arts
26 July 2023
A fascinating account of nineteenth-century phrenologists illuminates how ideas spread
Essays & Reportage
19 July 2023
A long-forgotten experiment throws light on the challenges facing Australian education in the 2020s
Books & Arts
4 July 2023
Historian Ruth Ross, the Waitangi Treaty and historical mythmaking are the subjects of a provocative account of New Zealand’s founding document that throws light on Australian…
National Affairs
15 June 2023
In the aftermath of the worst of Covid-19, what does history tell us about how best to deal with the experience?
Books & Arts
13 June 2023
Two new books excavate everyday experiences of the Cultural Revolution
Essays & Reportage
29 May 2023
How William Cooper became “the man who stood up to Hitler”
Essays & Reportage
24 May 2023
Inside Story editor Peter Browne introduces a memoir of Australia’s fifties by contributor Robert Milliken, who died last Sunday
Books & Arts
16 May 2023
English writer Alethea Hayter pioneered a new way of framing history
Books & Arts
12 May 2023
Writer Kapka Kassabova continues her beguiling exploration of the Balkans
Essays & Reportage
24 April 2023
Newly opened and unexpectedly vulnerable, the Australian War Memorial faced its first onslaught in January 1936
Correspondents
15 April 2023
Did the American president’s deeply personal sense of Irish history meet the moment?
Essays & Reportage
29 March 2023
What constitutes “evidence” of a queer life?
Books & Arts
23 March 2023
A historian tries to hear the voices of lost children
Books & Arts
21 March 2023
A distinguished historian uses one family’s story to illuminate the borderland between Europe and Russia
Books & Arts
21 February 2023
The real-world backdrop of Frank Moorhouse’s celebrated trilogy was alive with idealistic characters
Essays & Reportage
7 February 2023
On Netflix and in print, the couple’s story has been informed by a historical perspective with implications for Australia
From the archive
1 February 2023
Why did this shy Sydneysider dot his city with a one-word poem?
Books & Arts
1 February 2023
For a remarkable quarter-century, Tony Eggleton was the power behind the Liberal throne
Books & Arts
27 January 2023
The dire state of the Republican Party has decades-old roots
Books & Arts
25 January 2023
How anthropology flourished as colonialism began its decline