This Week in History: first battles on the Kokoda Track
This weekend in1942 Australian and Japanese soldiers battled for the hilltop station of Kokoda...
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Australia's Light Horse is being remembered in a new book by David Cameron, who retraces the...
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Archaeology the long lost city of Paphos
Archaeologists are uncovering the history of the long lost city of Paphos; Dr Craig Barker talks...
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This Week In History: the partition of India and Pakistan
In 1947 millions of people decided to leave their homes because of the partition of India and...
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Monday night travel: 50 years of the QE2
She was the last of the British built liners, survived a bomb scare, served in the Falkland...
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A new book looks back at the unfathomable story of the People's Temple of Jonestown. Jeff Guin's...
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This Week in History: the Jacobite Rebellion of 1746
The second Jacobite Rebellion swung into gear this week in history, when Bonnie Prince Charlie...
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This Week in History: the Jacobite Rebellion of 1746
The second Jacobite Rebellion swung into gear this week in history, when Bonnie Prince Charlie...
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Blood in the water! The Cold war games in 1956
Australia hosted the Olympic Games in 1956. This week in History the games were marred by...
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This Week in History: The Eruption of Krakatoa
It caused tens of thousands of deaths, spectacular sunsets, and was the first natural disaster to...
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This Week in History: the Battle of Actium
It marked the downfall of history's most famous lovers - Antony and Cleopatra - and set up Julius...
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Nightlife history: Rethinking B.A Santamaria
B.A Santamaria was a pivotal figure in the politics of the 1950s, with a key role in the split of...
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This week in 1504 – one of the greatest sculptures ever made was unveiled in a small square in...
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This Week in History: the Viking Age came to an end
While England was worrying about a Norman invasion to the south, a Norwegian king invaded the north.
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This Week in History: Collapse of the West Gate Bridge
35 construction workers met their deaths on October 15, 1970 when a span on the...
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Was South Australia really free of the convict taint?
South Australians love to brag that their state was the only one founded by Europeans without the...
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This Week in History - The Battle of Trafalgar
We find out why the one-eyed, one-armed Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson was such a hero of British...
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This Week in History: the Birth of the Turkish Republic
The birth of the Turkish republic in 1923 had links with Australian military history: it was...
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The man who discovered radio galaxies
John Gatenby Bolton was one of Australia's leading astronomers and spent his career trying to...
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