Bernadette Brennan discusses her biography of the brilliant but enigmatic author, Gillian Mears.

Bernadette Brennan on her biography of Gillian Mears

Marc David Baer explains why the history of the Ottoman Empire should be considered part of European history and Jamie Mackay takes us through the many empires that left a mark on the island of Sicily

East meets West during the Ottoman Empire and in Sicily

ANU anthropologist Christine Helliwell tells the story of a secret mission to infiltrate Borneo, under Japanese occupation.

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Brandon Garrett chronicles the litany of cases where flawed forensics have put innocent people in gaol and in some cases on death row. Is life preordained or random? Dr Sean Carroll argues that our existence, and that of the world, is the result of pure chance.

Flawed forensics. The role of chance in life.

What is the biological purpose of the handshake and why has it outlasted other forms of greeting?

The history of the handshake. The rise of Modern Spiritualism

Edmund Richardson recounts the story of Charles Masson, a self-taught archaeologist, and his quest to find the lost city of Alexandria.

Afghanistan's lost city of Alexandria. A secret library in Syria and a bookshop in Cairo

Clothing historian Lucy Adlington on the ‘The Dressmakers of Auschwitz' and Charlie English's account of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill.

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. Hitler's war against modern art and the mentally ill.

They're very resource hungry and yet skyscrapers are, and will remain essential to future living, and the hounding of singer Billie Holiday by the FBI.

Are skyscrapers the future?  and the hounding of jazz legend, Billie Holiday

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