Abstract
One of the most fundamental questions we might ask about galaxies is, Do all galaxies have the same age? A less general question, and one which we can surely succeed in answering is, Are the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) the same age as the Galaxy? We must also make clear what is meant by the same age if, in fact, star forming activities in these systems have proceeded along different timescales. The age of a system can be masked if the strongest star-forming epoch was not coincident with the initial epoch. Deep colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and luminosity functions (LFs) have had to wait until the advent of large southern telescopes, sensitive emulsions and detectors, and accurate methods of measuring crowded images.
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