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Adam M Wakeling

Adam M Wakeling

Update on New Book

My latest book, Why the Enlightenment Matters: The Shift in Our Thinking That Made the Modern World, has been published by Australian…

2 min readSep 19, 2023

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Update on New Book

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Adam M Wakeling

How Sausages Became a Symbol of Australian Democracy

The Rise of the Democracy Sausage

3 min readMay 23, 2022

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How Sausages Became a Symbol of Australian Democracy

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Adam M Wakeling

Was Hitler’s Architect the “Good Nazi”?

Breaking Down the Speer Myth

7 min readMay 9, 2022

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Was Hitler’s Architect the “Good Nazi”?

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Adam M Wakeling

How Japan’s Martial Arts Emerged From the Clash Between Tradition and Modernity

Creating Traditions

9 min readApr 26, 2022

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How Japan’s Martial Arts Emerged From the Clash Between Tradition and Modernity

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Adam M Wakeling

How Much Did Winston Churchill Actually Drink?

The British wartime PM’s very expensive habit

4 min readJan 13, 2022

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How Much Did Winston Churchill Actually Drink?

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Adam M Wakeling

The Quest for the Wreck of the Titanic

The Inaccurate C.Q.D call, the box office bomb, and the Texas oil millionaire with a trained monkey

10 min readJan 3, 2022

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The Quest for the Wreck of the Titanic

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Adam M Wakeling

The Famous Downfall Bunker Scene

How Historically Accurate is the Most Parodied Scene in Film History?

9 min readDec 25, 2021

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The Famous Downfall Bunker Scene

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Adam M Wakeling

The Last Person Sentenced to Death in Australia

Brenda Hodge’s troubling story and the final abolition of capital punishment in the country

11 min readNov 29, 2021

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The Last Person Sentenced to Death in Australia

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Adam M Wakeling

All Hail the Daylight Sky Father

What can we learn about the chief god of the prehistoric Indo-Europeans from their descendants?

8 min readNov 8, 2021

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All Hail the Daylight Sky Father

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Why Isn’t Canada Part of the United States?

How some British colonies in North America stayed out of the Revolution

10 min readOct 30, 2021

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Why Isn’t Canada Part of the United States?

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Adam M Wakeling

Adam M Wakeling

Adam Wakeling is an Australian writer, lawyer and historian. He is online at https://www.amwakeling.com/ and on Twitter @AdamMWakeling.

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