Some of you may be interested in this symposium on 'truth-telling' (in its many guises) being held at the University of Melbourne this week. Students and mob can attend for free, Unimelb staff get a 20% discount, and unwaged scholars get a 75% discount. I will be there for some of Friday's sessions!

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Really proud of the great work UTS Impact Studios does: recognised here with two awards for brilliant work on truth telling and the nexus between swimming and heat in Sydney’s west. @utsengage.bsky.social reshub.uts.edu.au/whats-on/new...

Past/Present is an Australian Historical Association initiative, in partnership with the Guardian, looking at current events in historical context. Here's an excellent piece by Roland Burke on early international efforts to deal with misinformation/disinformation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

History can tell us about the forces that structure our lives and the ways people have acted together to change them www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Published 30 Oct ... I'm in vol 5, expertly edited by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

“Being kicked out of the club for raising concerns around gambling lobbyists buying access to the club shows the influence vested interests have here in parliament and just how normalised this has become,” Pocock said. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Important research here from Joel Barnes tracing the origins of philanthropic wealth in Australia. How should institutions reckon with these legacies? theconversation.com/the-dixson-f...

Can schools bear the weight of a warming world? Student teacher Jaren reflects on the power of citizenship education to inspire student action against the climate crisis 🌎🌡️ @citizenshippgceioe.bsky.social blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe-student-...

Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Universities and the Public Good”. That is the title of a conference on research, education and democracy since 1945 in Hanover this week. Most of the researchers here are historians, but the questions raised are highly relevant for us today. ghiworkshops.hypotheses.org/universities...

Yes this is shocking.

Shocked to see this. An indictment on @mupublishing.bsky.social My father first published in Meanjin around 1950; I published there from 1983....

📣Only two weeks left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Oooh this is so interesting. I’m becoming interested in soldier settlement schemes in Australia and relationship to land reservation and indig dispossession.

Sydneysiders, join us at the Chau Chak Wing Museum for the 2025 Antony McNicoll Lecture delivered by Prof Lloyd Weekes (UNE) speaking on archaeological work in the UAE in 'Saruq al-Hadid: Cult, Craft, and Community in the Rub’ al-Khali'. 4 September, 5.30pm events.humanitix.com/2025-mcnicol...

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

'Voice' is a wonderfully rich account of how Indigenous scholars and students fought to be heard at the University of Melbourne. Interesting for me to appear in the historical narrative, not always as I remember....

Come and work with us! Do you believe that research matters? Do you want to use your research skills to drive important public policy debates in Australia? Apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025 Apply here 👉 australiainstitute.org.au/about/jobs/

"Australia has the second-lowest public expenditure on tertiary education institutions in the OECD…This has resulted in an endless chase for dollars (international students & “the next big thing”) rather than thinking about what an educated Australia should look like” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

So very excited about the next History Now panel - a collaboration with the Wood Memorial lecture by the Discipline of History at @sydney.edu.au Thanks @historymatterssyd.bsky.social Tickets are selling fast

@historymatterssyd.bsky.social and I are delighted to see the UNSETTLING PORTRAITS podcast get Highly Commended in these Digital History Awards! www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-h... (link to the podcast in this linked page)

The government is under mounting pressure to dump a Morrison-era policy that has drastically cut university funding, saddled many students with debts they will never be able to repay and driven many more away from higher education altogether. satpa.pe/MA6GXR1

#skycats “cuddles”

#marchforhumanity sydney

Winner of the New York festivals gold medal! Well done hey history! Australia’s first history podcast for the classroom www.heyhistory.net

Your support is needed - sign the petition opposing the Job-ready Graduates Scheme www.openpetition.org/au/petition/... @austhistassoc.bsky.social

insidestory.org.au/how-to-disap... this is a great article. Let me point out that major major structural reform has happened in our school system before. In the second part of the 19thC all Australian states abolished all state aid to private schools. #histed

The decline of academic history in Australia: an interesting & important article in SMH by @nickbryantoz.bsky.social Much more to be said, but a good start. Includes @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @capandgown.bsky.social @michellearrow.bsky.social Anna Clark et al #history @austhistassoc.bsky.social

Has to be triangles. #fairybread

New episodes now out of this brilliant new and deliciously serious podcast on Australian writing - these eps on First Nations writing and how it transforming everything podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/f...

A few months ago I wrote a piece about the remarkable new history of the University of Melbourne's entanglement with Indigenous Australia and what it means for how we think about universities and what they do. It's open access at History Australia: #skyhistorians www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Packed house at the launch of Fully Lit - our new podcast with the Sydney Review of Books on Australian Writing. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/f...

I just voted in Australis federal election at the local public school and bought my “democracy sausage” sold by the parents and friends association. Yay for compulsory voting. Yay for these quotidian rituals of democratic life.

Next Wednesday - online roundtable on Cultures of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry ... register here www.histgeog-uni.net/history-of-u... ... including @capandgown.bsky.social @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and others (inc me)

Join us on 7th May 11am BST for an online roundtable to celebrate the launch of our new edited volume: A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry! #histgeoguni #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @capandgown.bsky.social

From the first page alone: executive travel at ANU over one-year would pay for NINETY FIVE entry-level lecturers.

Hello Australian govt instead of destroying our universities maybe see them as valuable actors in a geopolitical realignment www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Attention Australian Universities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-staf... @austhistassoc.bsky.social

In a new episode of the BBC History Extra podcast, the Society's President, Lucy Noakes, considers the state of history in UK higher education today bit.ly/4cwSiaJ Lucy discusses the impact of cuts, restoring a student numbers cap, and history's contribution to national culture #skystorians 1/2

Very excited Rahul Rao’s book has arrived in my mailbox today on the politics of memorialisation and empire past and present. #skyhistorians

This is SUCH a good series from @kfullagar.bsky.social and Michael McDonnell. It’s a model for the kinds of conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people we might have in the wake of empire: honest, open, full of humour. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...

Can’t wait to listen to this! #skystorians 🗃️

Super pleased to see our podcast finally released, with Gordon Henry, Jo Rey, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Daniel Browning, Michel Tuffery, Daniel Boyd, and Joseph Pierce - amazing guests sharing their insights and lives omny.fm/shows/histor... 🙏 @capandgown.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social

Shouting it out for those at the back International students not to blame for rising rents, Australian study finds www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

I know it’s a drop in the ocean in the current HE crisis, but we are funding 27 great projects to develop new skills and methods to underpin humanities and social sciences research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/funding...

Academics travelling to the US need to be aware of this - if hotel costs count as illegal work, any paid for speaking invitations could put us at risk.

Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups. #Skystorians 1/2 👇