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Sex and gender in the British Empire, anyone?

28 October 2017

9:00 AM

28 October 2017

9:00 AM

In 440 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus broke with tradition by collecting primary sources and then systematically and critically arranging them into a narrative. In doing so, he essentially established the genre of objective historical writing, earning himself the epithet of the ‘Father of History.’

According to a coterie of historians currently practising their trade in Australian universities however, this is where Herodotus went wrong.

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