World Regions & Civilizations

3+ hour, 44+ min ago   (506+ words) A new scientific study estimates that Australia’s Indigenous population was 2.22 million in 1788, meaning 90 percent were killed by disease and violence. The revised figures carry profound implications for the national understanding of colonisation. According to the study’s authors, the data suggests…...

2+ hour, 34+ min ago   (914+ words) New research reveals how former Waffen-SS members were included in one of Switzerland's largest post-war humanitarian projects and ended up living freely in the South American country. Published in May 2026, his research documents the presence of at least 16 former Waffen-SS…...

4+ hour, 4+ min ago   (1602+ words) In the past, the Chinese migration to Southeast Asia, fondly referred as Nanyang, was driven by the need to flee war or earn a living. Today, a new wave of Chinese immigrants is arriving in Southeast Asia for entirely different…...

4+ hour, 47+ min ago   (593+ words) Frontier violence such as that portrayed in William Oswald Hodgkinson's painting Bulla, Queensland, 1861, was a major cause of Indigenous population decline. (Supplied: National Library of Australia) Australia's pre-colonial population estimate has been revised, suggesting the number of Indigenous people on…...

5+ hour, 15+ min ago   (1661+ words) Long ago, before the librarian Jane Stubbs crossed the Pillars of Hercules by way of Natchez, Mississippi, a bejeweled porter stepped into the freezing white-capped surf. It was December 7, 1797. Beyond him stood Tangier. On his shoulders rode James Simpson, coming…...

18+ hour, 53+ min ago   (202+ words) A memorial has been held for two WW2 pilots who died in a plane crash after steering their Halifax bomber to a safe place to save it from hitting Wallingford. Flying officer John Wilding and Flight Sergeant John Andrew died on…...

22+ hour, 59+ min ago   (357+ words) Hastings Borough Council is delighted to welcome Bayeux Around Britain: casting a masterpiece to Hastings Museum & Art Gallery from Thursday 10 September to Sunday 8 November 2026. The display features hand-painted plaster casts depicting King Harold II and William of Normandy, a special…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (594+ words) Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans The Register of British Slave Traders is the product of three years of research by a team of historians into all known investors in Britain’s…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (35+ words) The List.co.uk Reformers and Radicals: A survey of the art and politics of 16th Century Europe Event data provided by DataThistle...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (421+ words) The first beach to be stormed by the Allies on D-Day has become a launchpad for mega-dinghies carrying illegal migrants, according to reports. Utah Beach was a key battlefield for the tens of thousands of troops who landed in Normandy…...