The Latest Breaking News from World War I

The U.S. and its European allies recently said they planned to take a new approach in their relations with Russia: They would isolate and contain the country in the aftermath of its invasion of Ukraine. Doing so would keep Russia out of international organizations, restrict imports and exports, and prevent…

Before the pandemic, nostalgia was a major force in global politics. Donald Trump promised to "make America great again", and Brexiteers won their political battle partly by idealising Britain's imperial past. While Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a "great rejuvenation of the Chinese people", Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo…

In her latest book, Australia’s Great Depression, Joan Beaumont offers a deeply conservative history animated by the neoliberal spirit of our age.

In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's time for Europe to step up and America to step back.

This is the second in a series of recommended audio books. This one focuses on continental European history. Recommended for everyone The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. By Joseph Henrich. Narrated by Korey Jackson. While this book is global in scope,…

A family of Aboriginal war veterans was denied land under a government scheme for returning soldiers, Victoria's truth-telling Yoorrook inquiry has heard.

Travelers from Australia and New Zealand joined dignitaries at the former World War I battlefields of Gallipoli in northwest Turkey for a dawn service to honor soldiers who were killed during an unsuccessful British-led campaign that aimed to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war

The album was found in a cupboard during renovations to an aged care home. At first Martha Burns, Queensland's first female dentist, was though to have been its owner — but that doesn't match up with the history of her service during the war.

The remains of 17 missing French soldiers who fought in the World War I Battle of Gallipoli have been handed over to French military officials and put to rest alongside other fallen comrades more than a century after their deaths

A century after it was lost, a World War I medal is returned to the family of the Aboriginal soldier it belonged to in Victoria.

While fossicking through the Australian War Memorial archives, I recently stumbled upon a fetching photo of Digger, a dark brown and white stray bulldog that attached himself to soldiers training in 1914 and eventually went "over the top" of the trenches in World War I 16 times.