History

Entrepreneur Diego Bernacchi's great-great-granddaughter returns his and his wife's portraits to their former home, now a tourist destination, on Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast.

Elizabeth Wray and Rohan Samara are two of the thousands of children evacuated from Vietnam at the fall of Saigon 50 years ago as part of Operation Babylift.

Andrea James's powerful new play, The Black Woman of Gippsland, re-examines a problematic colonial legend and shows just how much work Australia still has to do to reckon with the past.

The bánh mì was created in Vietnam after the arrival of French colonialists. Now it's a firm favourite for lunch across Australia. 

Sydney couple Mon Berger and Charlie Tutty bought a rundown 19th-century schoolhouse more than 1,000 kilometres away, with a dream to revive, restore and one day retire to the heritage-listed property.

Central Queensland rail enthusiasts are trying to ensure one of only two intact roundhouses in the Southern Hemisphere is not cleared for an athletes' village.

In 1857, the Koning Willem de Tweede sank off SA's south-east coast, and researchers are now confident they have found it.

A murder in colonial Perth almost 150 years ago shocked the country and inspired Edith Cowan, the woman on Australia's $50 note, to fight for the rights of women.

In its 800-year history, a conclave has never been this diverse. How will this changing face of Catholicism impact the result of the papal vote?

Whether it's on the concert stage, our screens, or at world events like the Olympics, music for the piano is all around us.

John Geoffrey Fairley was one of a small group of photographers tasked with documenting the conflict for Australian audiences back home. Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, he says he has tried to forget the tragedies he witnessed. 

Teeming with marine life and being popular spots for diving, Queensland is home to more than 1,400 wrecks. They are deteriorating and researchers are exploring how to preserve them.

Every year, a small town in Western Australia's Wheatbelt re-creates the life of an escape artist and bushranger, with the spectacle attracting thousands of visitors.

A wave of dam building during the mid-20th century displaced dozens of towns, villages and First Nations communities. A public history project hopes to recover them.  

Unapproved street signs in Arrernte language have been installed as cultural guides alongside the town's originals, with QR codes linking to the words' correct pronunciations and background on their meanings.

Handmade encampments and living history displays of the Middle Ages are being erected in the Paracombe as medieval carnivals increase in popularity across Australia.

Seeking to learn the origins of a violin built by a mastercraftsman with cheap materials, a repairman opens up the instrument to discover a note left by its creator imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp.

With a hub based at heritage-listed Ayers House, South Australia's History Festival begins today and runs for the month of May.

Half a century since the bloodiest modern war in Asia ended, Vietnam is celebrating its unification.

Massive parades and events are being rehearsed as Vietnam prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which was also the beginning of one of Australia's largest migrations.