History

Here are some reblogs of some of Tim Harding’s favourite recent posts by other writers. (Reblogging does not necessarily entail endorsement of the views expressed).

2018

• Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like
• We brewed an ancient Graeco-Roman beer and here’s how it tastes
• What might appear to be common sense is not always based on scientific evidence
• Fifteen years after looting, thousands of artefacts are still missing from Iraq’s national museum
• Relics of colonialism: the Whitlam dismissal and the fight over the Palace letters

2017

• Weighing up the evidence for the ‘Historical Jesus‘
• We found evidence of early humans in the jungles of Borneo
• World’s scientists turn to Asia and Australia to rewrite human history
• Guide to the Classics: Suetonius’s The Twelve Caesars explores vice and virtue in ancient Rome
• How the ‘Warwick egg incident’ of 1917 exemplified an Australian nation divided
• Was agriculture the greatest blunder in human history?
• Friday essay: the recovery of cuneiform, the world’s oldest known writing
• Written in stone: the world’s first trigonometry revealed in an ancient Babylonian tablet
• Gold Rush Victoria was as wasteful as we are today
• Guide to the classics: Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War
• Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications
• Would we have collaborated with Hitler?
• Terror in London: Western cities will always be vulnerable to these attacks
• Parrot pie and possum curry – how colonial Australians embraced native food
• Surviving 2017 – a user’s guide

2016

• What if Japan had never surrendered during WWII?
• An historic handful of dirt: Whitlam and the legacy of the Wave Hill Walk-Off
• Guide to the classics: The Histories, by Herodotus
• Explainer: what is the 100-year-old Sykes-Picot Agreement?
• If Islamic State is based on religion, why is it so violent?
• Did the Crusades lead to Islamic State?
• Timeline: the history of gravity
• Crimes against the environment: the silent victim of warfare
• On the Banks of the Tigris – a documentary that traces the forgotten history of Iraqi music
• The Horse: reframing the history of human progress
• Global count shows tree numbers have halved since dawn of human civilisation
• Fifty years ago today, Menzies’ call on Vietnam changed Australia’s course
• ISIS is destroying ancient artefacts to send a message of intent
• Harking back: the ancient pagan festivities in our Christmas rituals
• The day Churchill saved Britain from the Nazis
• Historic Heston