Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

My book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social) is out tomorrow (but I have seen photo evidence that it's already out on display in an array of bookstores if you want to get in early). (1/3) unsw.press/books/quiet-...

My article in the newest volume of Lilith A Feminist History Journal is out now. 'Citrus Queens' is based on a talk I gave at the AHA conference 2024, and is about Riverland women negotiating belonging in 1960s SA. press.anu.edu.au/publications...

“The services under threat include access to legal assistance for people who have fled family and domestic violence, mediation services for separating couples, counselling, and contact services, used when a parent is only allowed supervised access to a child.”

Wils that the issue of confidentiality is looping back around & enabling us to highlight how flawed the system is now, given it was that issue almost a decade ago that saw a specialist service loose 1800Respect & now that same specialist service is recommended as the safe alternative to 1800Respect

As we talk about this, it's also important to remember that Full Stop used to be called Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia (RDVSA) & they actually used to run the 1800Respect service. Yes, a specialist service used to run the national helpline! That changed a few years back (cont)

If you've experienced sexual, family or domestic violence, you deserve support. You deserve the best, safest, most confidential support available. Use a pseudonym. Know your rights to not be recorded. Get the support you need and deserve.

The petition to keep the counselling notes of victim-survivors who seek support sexual violence confidential is popping off! Can you help us reach 2000 signatures?? www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/do... For more info, check out this article: www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...

‘AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters” [as it] “disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters”.’

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

"As in those languages where a verb is inflected by its object, the nature of a justiciable killing depends on its victim." How could any aspiring historian ever hope to be as eloquent and erudite as Patrick Wolfe?

Can't tell you how thrilled I am to see my PhD student Mary Bellman's first article published! 🥳 'The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in the British Shakespeare Association's journal, *Shakespeare*: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Historian friends, anyone got any reading recommendations on the Disability Discrimination Act / related campaigns in Australia? And/or on the way that different anti-discrimination Acts related to each other esp. in the 1990s?

Also we should talk about the piece from The Conversation about their own survey where they don’t release the survey itself so we can’t look at the methodology, sampling or even the results You can’t do polling analysis and go ‘trust me bro’ as the source instead of a published poll

Vital journalism critically examining research results (rather than regurgitating than without any thought for their validity)

That big scary survey about Gen Z men being more regressive than Boomers is so flawed. An image of young men is being manufactured in the media and we should be very concerned about that. Why do pollsters keep doing this???

My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA. I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation! #18thc #17thc #earlymodern onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

🧵: Books by historians I constantly recommend in policy meetings / professional contexts. In no order, to be added to when I remember: 1. The Seventies, by @michellearrow.bsky.social . Stuff can change, and it's possible to believe in things and plan for the future. unsw.press/books/the-se...

I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Meantime, four of the eight experts appointed to the expert advisory group have left. Our Watch chief executive Patty Kinnersly is no longer chair but is still part of the group. The department has not published communiqués from the group’s past two meetings."

History Australia 23(1) out now! “Happy reading and bon courage for 2026” www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/c...

History Workshop Journal just published its 100th issue—a landmark celebration of critical, community-driven history! From archival recoveries to new interpretations of protest, gender, & empire, HWJ reshapes how we think about the past: oxford.ly/46iUcd2 @historyworkshop.org.uk

Our paper about women's pain and psychogenic diagnoses is now out: doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts says she stepped down as the ACT's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner to prioritise her safety after being subjected to sexual harassment and sexual assault by a public servant.

New article, by Frances M Clarke, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social, Reto Hofmann and Hans-Lukas Kieser: 'Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Online Workshop - ANZSHM x Health & History What is the peer review process and how do you deal with reviewer feedback? February 26th 2025 @ 3pm AEDT (2pm AEST) Zoom details: lnkd.in/g77JzGdg... Password: 534412 Health and History Journal: lnkd.in/gH8u3QJ6

Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...

I wrote about how the women Epstein and co victimized have been minimized and ignored as individuals even in popular discourse about the very abuse they endured—and how the legal system has punished them and other women, not helped them, for daring to come forward. spitfirenews.com/p/even-the-m...

My first ever Conversation article!

The physical copies of my new book, based on my DECRA research, have arrived! You can order a copy for your library here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-... or read about the project at: www.beautysalonproject.com

Today has been surreal as I submitted my PhD Thesis, A History of Sexual Assault Reporting in The Age, 2011-20 for examination. We deserve ethical & responsible sexual assault reporting whether that be within traditional media forums or on social media.

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university 1. History & Memory: Uses & Abuses of the Past 2. Underbelly Australia: Crime & Punishment 3. US Foreign Policy Since 1945 4. Event & Experiment: Twentieth-Century Literature 5. Countercultures: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Happy 🇬🇧 UK pub day to THE CROWN’S SILENCE—a deeply researched narrative history of the monarchy’s centuries-long entanglement with slavery. This is the new history book the far right loathes. Please buy it b/c it’s important history but—also—it will really piss them off if it does well in the UK!!😉😘

Publication alert! 🚨 “An (un) Ordinary Farmhouse near Tamworth: Refuge and Danger in the Family Home” has been published by the Royal Australian Historical Society. I talk about gothic literature, family violence and how even unremarkable houses can be important www.rahs.org.au/history-maga...

Published online, an article by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, ‘The Emotional Labour of Feminism: Australia’s International Women’s Year 1975’. Abstract below. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

2026 📚🧵

‘Sunny Christmas,’ Australian Women’s Weekly, December 5, 1936, 1.

It’s feeling very real!!! Publication date: June 16, 2026. @pennpress.bsky.social

If current media, political and public conversations on sexual abuse is causing you distress please know there are support services available. You deserve care! Sexual Assault Support Services in Australia 🧵

For anyone who would like to know more about my new chair in the Cultural History of the Body, see: www.uu.nl/en/news/from... If you are interested in working together, do get in touch!

Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women. I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans. I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Some great recommendations in the replies to my question about how historians use sources.

New article out 🎉 Drawing on my PhD research, I explore the construction of the 'prostitute' and the 'client' within England's AIDS Policy in the late 1980s. Published with the @sshmedicine.bsky.social and now available to read here (though sadly not open access!): #histmed #histsex #AIDShistory

A Senate inquiry in Australia has found that corporatised universities have 'betrayed' students and staff. Good stuff. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

‘Deaths, after deaths, after deaths’: Indigenous deaths in custody reach their highest level since 1980

“If actually implemented by auditors, [the] memo would effectively suspend numerous protections under the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act for trans and intersex people.” It sickens me that transmisogynists ever convinced anyone they care about rape. This is a transparent call for sexual violence.

📢Your Story Matters: Help Preserve Survivors' History. We are recording the oral histories of survivors of child sexual abuse. These personal stories are invaluable-they give voice to histories that might otherwise be lost. Read more here: shra.bbk.ac.uk/blog/recover...