play Play pause Pause S1 E6 May 05, 2021 When a pandemic plague hit Florence in 1630, why were city health officers worried about smells? When the pandemic plague hit, the first action taken by the government was to impose an emergency lockdown. It was known that the disease could pass from person to per...
play Play pause Pause S1 E5 May 04, 2021 How did West Papuan people become invisible? In geographical terms, the island of Papua New Guinea is one of Australia's closest neighbours. Yet most Australians know little about it, and we know even less about ...
play Play pause Pause S1 E4 Apr 13, 2021 Why did the duck go to the Canadian supreme court? Sometimes progressive politics and good intentions create unexpected consequences for the marginal groups they are supposed to help. In this HWIR Sydney historian, Mir...
play Play pause Pause S1 E3 Apr 12, 2021 How do you build your own personal archive of China's Cultural Revolution? When she began Saturday-morning Chinese language classes as a 7-year-old, Minerva Inwald could hardly have imagined what she would be doing in far-off 2010. That year ...
play Play pause Pause Recommended Episode S1 E2 Apr 07, 2021 How close could prostitutes get to nuns in Renaissance Florence? The DECIMA Project, based at the University of Toronto, is a mapping tool that allows 21st-century humans to explore the streets and piazzas of Florence as it was in t...
play Play pause Pause S1 E1 Apr 06, 2021 What is an "archive of grievance"? And did the Chinese miners get to keep their gold? In the first episode of HWIR, Dr Sophie Loy-Wilson talks about how people remember, and how nations forget. We learn how Sophie's own experience as a young girl in Bei...
