SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of aborigines are estimated to have been murdered in 500 massacres across Australia from European settlement in 1788 until the mid-20th century, researchers said on Friday ...

Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, wool generated extraordinary wealth for squatters and pastoralists and substantial investment in the Australian colonies. In the ...

New archaeological techniques have uncovered the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists buried in unmarked graves in the Anglican Parish of St Mary's Church in Adelaide. Published in ...

Colonial America had been a destination for Britain's criminals for a while, but the American War of independence in 1776, forced Britain to think of new places to export its convicts, to protect ...

Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. A statue in Melbourne of British naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 charted Sydney’s coast, was ...

Anna Clark could have titled her book “Remaking Australian History”, for that is its narrative arc. She celebrates a change in the stories Australians can tell of their nation: from a heroic tale of ...