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Of 162,000 convicts sent to Australia, roughly 3600 were political prisoners - and they banded together to bring resistance to the colonies.

No portraits exist of one of the most important people in Pacific history. Tupaia was a man of many talents: high priest, artist, diplomat, politician, orator and celestial navigator. After fleeing conflict on his home island of Ra’iātea for Tahiti, he befriended botanist Joseph Banks, and joined the onward voyage of James Cook’s Endeavour. Arriving in New Zealand in 1769, Tupaia discovered he could converse with Māori. He became an interpreter, cultural advisor and bringer of news from is...

A Maori waka hidden in a river 150 years ago has caused quite a stir, revealing secrets of resistance against colonial rule during the bloody New Zealand Wars.

Here's what's coming up around Lithgow and some ideas if you're looking for something to do.

Here's what's coming up around Lithgow and some ideas if you're looking for something to do.

"Afro-Atlantic Histories," has been radically downsized at LACMA. Plus: In praise of Paul Mescal's acting and why "Tár" is bad for classical music.

A new digitisation program of insolvency records from the 19th century offers a glimpse into early colonial life: when one person went broke, the impact rippled through the household, the suburb and local vendors.

Dr Karen Greig and Dr Nic Rawlence with a kurī skeleton. The arrival of humans, and the kiore (Pacific rat) they brought with them, has been well

Guide to selected collections The National Librarys collections range in date from the eleventh century to the present, take in every country in the world and are exceptionally broad in format and subject. They consist of books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, maps, manuscripts, private archives, music scores, pictures, microform and digital materials. A significant proportion of what the Library holds, including some of the rarest and most valuable material, was acquired as colle...

Waves Across the South by Sujit Sivasundaram review – the age of revolutions reconceived Samanth Subramanian © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images In 1826, crowds poured into the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly to gape at a spoil of war: a Burmese imperial carriage, nearly 14ft long, its spokes silvered, its body clothed in gilt and its seven-tiers studded with 20,000 precious stones. An accompanying handbook showed, in a sketch, how the carriag...