Professor Deirdre Coleman

Robert Wallace Chair of English, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Arts & Culture

Other awful years in history

2020 has been grim, but there have been worse years. Here, experts from science, history and literature take us through just some of the other terrible times

Arts & Culture

A bittersweet history

Sugar is one of the world’s oldest documented commodities, but the story of how it came to dominate our modern-day diets is one of exploitation and transformation