Letters: We should learn about emancipated people’s extraordinary capacity for mutual endeavour, writes Prof Kathryn A Monk, in response to an article in the Cotton Capital series

Talk Like A Pirate Day is one of the internet’s favourite holidays. But who were these infamous seafarers and how did they really talk?

“Decay continues” as Australian Research Council’s Decra scheme announces 13.1 per cent success rate

CSIRO is under attack. Sign the petition calling on the Albanese Government to act now to secure the future of CSIRO’s world-leading science and research.

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archiv...

Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.

Slavery and practices of unfree labour changed the political economy and culture of the Philippines—and may have influenced Australia.

Not Just the Tudors · Episode

A Jesuit priest reflects on the upheaval in Syria

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archiv...

<p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definite...