A disturbing precedent that branded British subjects ‘aliens’ is made even more dangerous by the rise of populism today

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

Barts is one of many UK institutions whose benefactors were involved in the trafficking of enslaved Africans

In 1833, slavery in the British Empire was abolished, but not without a massive compensation scheme paid out to slave owners. Some of that money flowed to colonial Australia. Two-thirds of Australia's...

This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick ...

Grants awarded under the 2025 Publication Subsidy scheme will support early career humanities researchers to publish new research.

Expectations that universities produce graduates who understand work culture from day one are misguided, says the head of Melbourne Business School.

Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

It's 1865 in remote central west NSW. A police office is fatally shot by a man he believes is a Chinese bushranger. The story of Sam Poo is a bushranging tale with a twist