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

The Prime Minister credited 36 Months for convincing him to ban teens from social media. This group accused experts who opposed the ban of being 'bought' by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up brand deals, eyeing global expansion & developing an AI tool to track students www.crikey.com.au/20...

“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...

It’s not too late to participate in Share the Dignity Australia’s #itsinthebag campaign - providing support & essential items to women & children escaping domestic violence. You have until tomorrow (Nov 30) to pack a Adult, Teen and/or Mum & Bub bag & drop off a your local Bunnings. Details below👇

It's publication day for "Marital Privilege," by my phenomenal Penn Carey Law colleague @serenamayeri.bsky.social! If you are interested in marriage, non-marital intimate relationships, family law, inequality, 20th c. legal history, law & social movements -- this book is a must-read! #LegalHistory

I've written a piece for Abolitionist Futures' fantastic series on gender-based violence. This piece came out as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence #acttoendviolence abolitionistfutures.com/latest-news/...

*small embarrassed voice* A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s. doi.org/10.1093/libr...

I’m delighted to share that my first journal article has been published in the special issue 'Labour Archives and Methodologies' of Labour History. Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...

my latest for @msmagazine.com — a glimpse into the making of the new doc #freejoanlittle, which premiered this week @docnycfest.bsky.social, and an exploration of why it matters, especially at this crisis moment in the expansion of police and state violence, that we remember this story.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts coming into force, a new policy paper by Louise A Jackson considers the impact of the legislation and suggests more needs to be done to entrench equality in the workplace. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

🗃️ 🧵1/ Need help from historians: I'm revising a final project for my undergrad historical methods course. The final project mostly entails writing an annotated bibliography around subjects I propose. They're required to gather a host of primary and secondary sources and create this annotated biblio.

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

A revived “public charge” standard directs officers to deny visas to people with disabilities, chronic illnesses and age-related conditions—echoing the exclusionary policies of the early 20th century.

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).