I spoke to the ABC about Wollongong Uni's opaque decision making regarding the future of its Safe and Respectful Communities (SARC) team, & the challenges of rebuilding trust in an institution that people feel has betrayed them 👇

“These words should shame not just those there that day who failed Lomas but every person who watches this footage…She speaks as if she is the problem, when it is those around her who have made her more vulnerable to death.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“The reforms that have been under way are centred on the deaths of non-Indigenous women … These reforms are not based on the experiences of black women – in fact, black and criminalised women are often routinely silenced and forgotten in these conversations” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Broken trust, a vital investigative journalism series from The Guardian on systematic failures by police and coroner's court in domestic violence deaths in Queensland www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Blink and December will be here. Summer, the end of the semester and a fresh new issue of History Australia 22(4) coming soon. Hear “From the editors” now! 💻 📘 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.

Emotions and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present edited by @dianagbarnes.bsky.social & @katieebarclay.bsky.social explores how letters have served as powerful tools for expressing, performing & shaping emotional experiences across cultures & historical contexts https://bit.ly/3IZVdhG

I have been trying my hand at public history with a very informal social media ‘History & Tea’ series. In this video, I briefly explore the Australian Maternity Allowance Act 1912 vt.tiktok.com/ZSfR1njJf/

Congratulations to Zoe Smith (ANU), winner of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the annual AHA conference @austhistassoc.bsky.social Thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social for supporting the prize. Read the judges’ citation below

Congratulations to Mary Blight (Curtin), runner up of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the AHA conference. Read the judges’ citation below. Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.

Know anyone who would want to come work with me? 1 year position for someone with a HASS background (don’t need to be a programmer), working on a tool to search historical documents like colonial Hansard. unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

If only someone had written a book about this www.panmacmillan.com/authors/agne...

Re-sharing: Sexual Assault Support Services in Australia 🧵 If you need support please know there are services available & you are deserving of care!

Thrilled that my former student Will Schultz has his first book out with @uncpress.bsky.social. Check it out!

This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!

A gentleman skeleton at a ball asks a lady skeleton to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862. Image: Wellcome Collection, London.

We're discussing youth sexuality in my 'Sex, medicine and society' tutorial tomorrow so wanted to flag these brilliant publications by @kristinwh0.bsky.social on unmarried women & contraception in Scotland and @carorusterholz.bsky.social's fantastic book on the Brook Centres! Links below (all OA).

“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.

Reactionary legislation that will only inflict untold levels of harm www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Our Nov issue is up, guest ed is Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social it’s devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia. It’s also the final issue for outgoing eds Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley–thanks for your excellent stewardship these last four years www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...

My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!

Wonderful story from the #Emory African American Studies Department about Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s contributions to “The Gilded Age.” #hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...

I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25

Available March 2026 from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, but pre-order possible. The real editing has been done by Charlotte Greenhalgh and @clarecorbould.bsky.social #histsci #histstm #STS @austhistassoc.bsky.social

Non-Fiction November Recommendations 📖📚 Ten books ranging from historical non-fiction, investigative journalism to memoir 🧵

Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026! Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025. Travel grants available.

My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee! www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...

I'm the director of an anti-sexual violence charity. This measure won't prevent harm, nor will it mean perpetrators will hand themselves into police. It will, however, make some victim-survivors less likely to report, and subject others - including children - to additional financial distress

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...

There's a long tradition of people dressing up as famous women during their lowest moments. msmagazine.com/2023/11/03/a...

My introduction to a brand new special issue of 'Australian Historical Studies' devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia has just appeared. Thanks to all of the contributors and the journal's editors. 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Imagine introducing laws to protect kids from how toxic social media is and... thanking News Corp for helping? Every media outlet that uses social media as a distribution channel actively shapes the culture of those platforms. These things are not separate. www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...

Today we learned of a shocking amendment to the income apportionment bill that involves police in social security decisions. We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments. Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?

🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word! www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...

Critical introduction to forthcoming "Gender & Segregation" special issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social by Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me is now out and #OpenAccess! Issue itself to follow shortly... 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It also raises the question of how adults (& the criminal justice system) will respond to teens who have been victimised online - will they end up being treated as the ‘problem’ for breaching social media ban?

It's great to see the publication of the second paper from our "queer pollies" project exploring the social media harassment of LGBTQIA+ politicians during the 2022 Australian federal election. It's also Open Access! #AusPol @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social gosiami.bsky.social @jackhayes.bsky.social

Finished academic version here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Help, the bot I fed on racism has turned out to be a racist. theconversation.com/historical-i...

New from your friends @australiainstitute.org.au: The Point! Get the news, fact checks and explainers you need on everything from international relations to climate change. thepoint.com.au

It's explainers, op-eds, fact checks, pre-bunking, research and the blog, with plans for news features and investigative journalism as it grows. So it's not news, news, but what's going on behind and around the news, issues based, and what matters. And it's free. Hope to see you there x

New open-access article on a peculiar type of periodical, the county magazine: Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39 doi.org/10.1080/1478... In Cultural and Social History

There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London. I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from. 1/15

New article out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's gestation began in late 2021, shortly before I started my current job teaching Black British history. It's the product of my frustrations with the way that the histories of racism & fascism in Britain are written about. doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

MUP’s biggest publication day is here 📚 🧡 Rebel Women Speak 🍯 Honey From the Ground 🇺🇸 Turbulence 📸 Early Photography in Colonial Australia 📖 Saltwater Fella 🌿 Red Earth 🏙️ Shutter City 🏡 Great Properties of the Riverina and Upper Murray

What a brilliant title! Courting Disaster by @thezhm.bsky.social 📚🌷 A fascinating, feminist dive into 18C literature – from Richardson to Austen – shedding light on ‘courtship’, consent, & the power of literature 📖 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188854/ (TY @manchesterup.bsky.social 🤓)

My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB: dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....

A new initiative from the AHA: a monthly column in The Guardian providing an historical perspective on present-day events! We're starting with Roland Burke, thinking about misinformation and the links between the UN of today and the 1930s. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mamamia’s god awful clickbait asking if children even need to read in today’s digital world (& positioning reading books as boastful) is indicative that yes they really should be reading books 🙃