A boatful of nuns on holiday camp in Perth, Western Australia, in February 1956 (State Library of NSW) 🗃️

12‑month fixed‑term fellowship for early‑career historians in Australian history at the University of Sydney starting 2027. Historians of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent, and scholars working in Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander history, are especially encouraged to apply.

'To this day Michel remains the only woman to have a Parisian metro station named after her [...] Two years ago, in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, a golden statue of Michel emerged from the Seine.' Clara Vlessing on the cultural legacies of anarchist women.

Today at 2:30, @kfullagar.bsky.social and I will be giving evidence in the Senate inquiry into Job-Ready Graduates on behalf of the AHA. This failed policy is bad for history and history students and it must go. The hearings are live-streamed if you’d like to watch: www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Eve...

I always get so much out of these podcasts, but the two episodes with Isabella Hammad are essential listening imo: milkweed.org/between-the-... & milkweed.org/between-the-...

Yeah, I'm sharing an open to work here, 'cause there's some awesome historians and researchers on Bluesky, and it'd be great to work with y'all. #JobSeek #OpenToWork #History

For #LesbianVisibilityDay - how lesbians made themselves visible in the 1921 UK census. (Free, open access)

We are now allowed to create tutorial plans and other teaching materials with GenAI … if you can’t plan a tutorial what are you doing with your time and your career

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

FWIW I've also just added to my new website a short reflection on why us human editors are superior to AI. If you or anyone you know is in need of editorial assistance, please get in touch.

I've been working as a freelance professional academic editor for over 15 years and have finally got around to creating a website. If you're an academic writer seeking experienced editorial help on a writing project (e.g. book, chapter, journal article), get in touch! And please spread the word ✏️📖

My first article, a close reading of newly enfranchised Aotearoa New Zealand women's apparent 'defection' from the Contagious Diseases Act repeal campaign 🗃️ doi.org/10.1080/0961...

My first article, a close reading of newly enfranchised Aotearoa New Zealand women's apparent 'defection' from the Contagious Diseases Act repeal campaign 🗃️ doi.org/10.1080/0961...

Academics, is there an article or paper that you've published that you feel has slipped under the radar? Reply or quote this post with your overlooked piece! Here's mine... www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

It has arrived! The 200th volume in the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism series. A landmark study of the afterlives of Caribbean slavery in Australia. Come and help us celebrate while discussing imperialism, past, present & future? www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Great idea Evan! My pick is in honour of the writer Streten Božić/ Wongar who died in March, aged 94. Broken English: What to Do with Wongar, the European Migrant Who Became an Aboriginal Writer: Australian Historical Studies: Vol 53, No 4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women's History has been launched, including my chapter 'Women and Divorce Law in England and Wales, 1537–2022'. I had great fun writing it and I'm proud to be published alongside so many amazing authors writing on such importantly and timely topics.

Great news Townswoman 30s-50s digitised by @lselibrary.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DXEE4_3... examples interwar womens activities and campaigning @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

My latest article: 'We don’t know who did it. We don’t know their gender, their ethnicity or their political beliefs... What we do know is that in the summer of 1983–84, a fungus called Phragmidium violaceum was introduced to Australia – deliberately, secretly and illegally.' Call it 'plant noir'!

The extravagant plumage of a king vulture as drawn by Eleazar Albin, c.1734

they want you to use siri and ai so badly but i'm not really interested in that kind of thing

Exciting news! I've signed a contract to write my first solo book - on women, politics and the battle for equal franchise between 1918 and 1928. It will be published for the centenary of the Equal Franchise Act in 2028 by @yalebooks.bsky.social Suffraduck is on my desk waiting for me to start! 🗃️

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

Happy to share that ‘Remapping Black Women’s Health Activism Within and Beyond Australia’s International Women’s Year’ has been published open-access. It contributes to the Special Issue: Fifty Years On: Rethinking the Legacies of Australia’s International Women’s Year. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Hoy se ha publicado un artículo que escribí sobre asociaciones artísticas en el sufragismo británico. Espero que disfrutéis leyéndolo tanto como yo escribiéndolo. 🥰 www.upo.es/revistas/ind...

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

Call me a bizarre anthropomorphic rabbit, because I’ve got so many Easter Eggs in my 270th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the hunt, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Andrei Tarkovsky, born on this day – 4 April – in the village of Zavrazhye in 1932 🗃️

Interesting-sounding PhD position in Bern: architectural history of the Swiss women's movement 1870-1930.

One of the most rewarding parts of my job is supervising final-year undergraduate 'capstone' theses. Here, @paigedonaghy.bsky.social and I present a selection of these from emerging historians of gender and sexuality @unimelb.edu.au 🗃️

One of the most rewarding parts of my job is supervising final-year undergraduate 'capstone' theses. Here, @paigedonaghy.bsky.social and I present a selection of these from emerging historians of gender and sexuality @unimelb.edu.au 🗃️

New from VIDA: 🎉 James Keating (@jameskeating.bsky.social) & Paige Donaghy (@paigedonaghy.bsky.social) introduce a blog showcasing seven UniMelb undergraduate history projects 🎉 Read it here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/making-... #hist #histaus #gendhist #histsex #IWD2026 #undergrad @unimelb.edu.au

Very excited to present this wonderful collection of student research with my colleague @jameskeating.bsky.social 💫

I used to work at a bookstore with an author and whenever anyone came in asking for a recommendation he’d just sell them his book which he said was pretty good but would never mention he wrote. You gotta respect the grift even if, in the moment, you sometimes wanted them to be hit by a bus.

Really interesting study that found AI use is concentrated in opinion articles (rather than straight news) at top newspapers arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18774

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

“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.”

This issue of ‘Lilith' explores gender in 20th-century Australia and Britain, from maternal feminism and 'Citrus Queen' pageants to motherhood and mental health, and the arguments that won abortion law reform in 1960s Britain. Get your copy today: doi.org/10.22459/LFH... #feminist #feminism #gender

Incredible book 👇🏻 just when you begin to tire of the fragment as a genre, this comes along and reminds you that there’s so much more than can be done.

John Berger on the "intolerable" (perhaps my "unbearable"): "When something is termed intolerable, actions must follow. These actions are subject to all the vicissitudes of life. But the pure hope resides first and mysteriously in the capacity to name the intolerable as such..."

To celebrate our 50th volume, JAS invites you to contribute to a special issue on (the Journal of) Australian Studies at 50. Please see the CFP below for details - and please circulate it far and wide! @intlausstudies.bsky.social #CFP #OzStudies #OzLit #OzHist #auspol #AustralianStudies

The Social Survey in Global Perspective, 1900-2020s, edited by Charlotte Greenhalgh, Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social and Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/4rfjukL #History #Sociology

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

There she blows!—there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!

AHA member Leigh Boucher's podcast series on Darlinghurst's AIDS crisis in the 1980s & 1990s is live now! The series explores how the meaning and experience of AIDS was produced in a dense, intimate world of queer kinship. Follow the link to begin listening ! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...

New article w/ Lindsay Katz & @rohanalexander.bsky.social in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social! Analyzing Australian House of Reps debates, we find that as women’s representation increases, interruptions of women MPs & interruptions overall decline Read more: doi.org/10.1080/1036... #polsky #gendersky

This young woman photographed using a transistor radio on a train in Sydney's Redfern on 21 April 1960 (photo by Alec Iverson, State Library of NSW)🗃️

In early career you have lists in your head of scholars you admire who are just a few years ahead — I remember clearly when these scholars started to disappear. These scholars aren't replaced. The knowledge disappears. The gaps widen.

This is a fine @catrionamp.bsky.social review of @erinvincent.bsky.social 's outstanding book. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

So pleased the wonderful @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social will publish ‘The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared’ in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. & what a gorgeous cover! unsw.press/books/the-bo...