Watching the Appleton Ladies Potato Race and 💯 appreciate the way the subtitles specify the bird call [currawong song] not just [birdsong]. 👩‍🍳😘

PS I think our takes on the meaning of the abundance agenda are somewhat similar jacobin.com/2025/07/klei...

Shauna Bostock on Aboriginal truth telling at the Blackheath History Forum.

Most read in Labour History '“Selling Their Jobs?” Thatcherism, Voluntary Redundancy and Worker Resocialisation' by Greig Taylor & Matthew McDonald Read it online: bit.ly/LH-Thatcherism @drdrehistorian.bsky.social @hannahforsyth.bsky.social

Just to emphasize: in these three letters, written in Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Cádiz, by Portuguese, Dutch, and Tuscan merchants, between 1663-1681, and held in three different archives (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Stadsarchief Amsterdam, and Archivio di Stato di Firenze), they all love chocolate

Purple sprouting broccoli. ❤️

A piece of this I tried to capture is that, even if Trump and the MAGA media succeed in deflecting some of this from Trump, this document offers so much evidence that supports the *broader* framework of elite rot and corruption. All of that has to go somewhere. I fear it's not gonna go anywhere good

Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5 🧵4/5

I miss when “purity tests” were simply called “principles.”

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

Hugh Mangum, an photographer, travelled all across the US from the 1890s till his death in 1922s. Possibly ignoring segregation laws in some places he welcomed everybody in front of his camera. The results are fantastic. If only these photos could talk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ma...

This is definitely worth a read 👇

Yeah. And The Economist too 🙄🤣.

centrist pregnancy announcement: we have abundance in the oven 🥰

The communist takeover of higher education is imminent

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters

"Nous is rebuilding the ivory tower with everyone still inside. And like their nicknamesake vampire, someone had to invite them in." Say no to Nousferatu. archive.is/6NiMu

A gut-wrenching read from a brilliant scholar, on the crisis at ANU. It speaks to the broader sickness in our universities (including my own). FYI @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @hannahforsyth.bsky.social @capandgown.bsky.social @joshuablackjb.bsky.social overland.org.au/2025/08/anu-...

Students are not just an ATM for uni management but now are their solution to the social licence problem. No need to change anything, look at our lovely marketing! futurecampus.com.au/2025/08/29/s...

My “down the back of the sofa” theory of the emerging phase In the history of capitalism open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.

Please stop calling me a silly billy. I have grown up since then, ok, I'm an adult, I'm a silliam william now

As one of the editors of this journal, I totally endorse the three-pronged approach to higher education and history proposed by these esteemed Australian historians:

As I swam my laps this morning a much older lady in the next lane did the most perfect backstroke. I don’t think my arms can do that but it now my highest ambition.

youtube.com/watch?v=Bwxr... Please check this out!!! It is hilarious!!! This song should be blaring loud for all to hear😂😂😂😂

ABC story 1: globalisation is over. ABC story 2: globalisation is back on.

I love this woman. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"We need to be clear: the Vice-Chancellor’s latest announcement is not a change of course — it is a public relations exercise." A statement from Our ANU on today's misleading announcement from the VC 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

And I was thinking maybe I’d lost my mad research skillz.

In a 1981 Gallup Poll survey, 56% of Australians agreed with the proposition that “racism is entrenched in every aspect of Australian society”. Wonder how that would track today?

Andrew Ford on the history of music at the Blackheath History Forum.

Say what you will about the ibis they are great parents. Two adults cleaning their baby in the tree…awww

There is a lot written on the crisis in our universities. You wont find anything more concise, from anyone more qualified, than this excellent, short piece from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social

Sign 1. Substantial penalties apply for improper use of energency safety equipment. Sign 2. Alarm signal. Penalty for misuse, $20. Now I’m not denying that $20 is substantial. But.

Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?

Oh yes. It’s open access.

Great start to the week, a clear eyed view

New article by me on professional women as a ‘commodity frontier’ in the history of capitalism: The massive influx of women to white collar professions in the 1990s was the culmination of around a century of women’s efforts. But then… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For journalism, I revisited the research on wealth and generosity/empathy. This read is way more expansive than the topic at hand, but anyway: "Wealth tends to make people act like assholes, and the more wealth they have, the more of a jerk they tend to be." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s

Look even *if* AI could do the job of a historian, I still wouldn’t trust it. My research is on how elites used the past as a political tool and tried to control historic narratives. I wouldn’t trust tech companies and their connections to right wing governments to not rewrite the past.

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

I purchased so much from Nordic socks Oz winter sale that if wealth was measured in socks I’d be up there with the sock bros. Also. Wealth should be measured in socks.

What sort of place drives its children to crime?

I've never hit on a downside to this. Almost everyone I've shared sources with has been incredibly gracious. One senior professor went out of her way to thank me in her footnotes for sending her the German original of a source from my phd research notes.