There are other questions and answers about how to enable the key Backspace to go back to the previous page in Safari, but none of them work on my newly installed Mojave even though it used to work on High Sierra.
How can I enable this behaviour in Mojave?
Best Answer
You can add a keyboard shortcut from the terminal, but this requires you to disable system integrity in macOS 10.14 Mojave and later.
Alternative, you can install a Safari Extension which injects a script that bring back the functionality:
https://github.com/yene/Safari-Backspace
For example: