Origins: How the Christmas pudding, with ingredients taken from the colonies, became an iconic British food
Historian TROY BICKHAM, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the origins of the Christmas pudding…
Origins: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ still leaves an indelible mark on our culture 55 years on
NATHAN ABRAMS, professor of film studies at Bangor University, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at one of cinema’s landmark films…
Origins: Jurassic Park at 30 – how its CGI revolutionised the film industry
PETER HODGES, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the background to the film that used pioneering computer-generated imagery to bring dinosaurs to life…
Origins: Shakespeare’s First Folio
It’s 400 years since Shakespeare’s friends published his First Folio. DAVID MCINNIS, associate professor of Shakespeare and early modern drama at The University of Melbourne, looks at how it came about…
Origins: How an American magazine helped launch one of Britain’s favourite Christmas carols
MAURA IVES, a scholar of British poet Christina Rossetti, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at how ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ became one of the most popular Christmas carols…
Origins: Where was the world’s first zoo?
In an article first published on The Conversation, MICHAEL J RENNER, director of zoo and conservation science at Drake University, explores where the idea of zoos came from…
Origins: A history of Easter feasts and why the English breakfast might be medieval
GILES GASPER, a professor in high medieval history at Durham University, looks at the origins of the Easter feast…
Origins: The messy history of our modern, Western calendar
In an article published on The Conversation, scholar MATTHEW S CHAMPION, of Australian Catholic University, look at the rather complicated history of the Western calendar…
Origins: The history of the shopping centre Santa
In an article first published on The Conversation, Australian marketing experts GARY MORTIMER and LOUISE GRIMMER look at how the shopping centre Santa became a staple of the festive season…
Essay: Why it will soon be too late to find out where the COVID-19 virus originated
In an article first published on The Conversation, Australian DOMINIC DWYER, who was a member of the team that visited Wuhan in China earlier this year as part of the World Health Organisation’s investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 virus, says the clock’s ticking…