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...

I've been waiting for this book by superstar writer and researcher @rosavcampbell.bsky.social to come out. Was lucky to read an early chapter and it is going to be brilliant. Embarrassingly late to this New Yorker essay. Pre-ordering my copy now ❤️❤️❤️

Happy International Women’s Day! Let's create a thread of women from history we think more people should know about. We will start: Una Marson (1905 – 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer. Image: WikiCommons #WHM26 #InternationalWomensDay

Was just thinking this earlier in the week

Gertrude Stein hanging out with the Cone sisters.

Follow these historians of women and gender history this #womenshistorymonth go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj

TIL that hair shaved from the heads of convict women incarcerated at the Parramatta Female Factory in the 19th century was used as a binding agent in the mortar in the building's stonework. Convicts often had to build their own prisons, but the corporeal aspect of this is particularly poignant.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Issue 31 of ‘Lilith' comes at a time when feminist history feels both urgent and under threat. From rising fascism to cuts in academic freedom, history and gender studies are being slashed, while scholars face growing precarity. Register your interest: doi.org/10.22459/LFH...

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

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

Georges Perec: “To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.” (Species of Spaces, tr. John Sturrock)

This drawing on a small piece of paper of a bumble bee and a planthopper – the work of an unknown Netherlandish artist, probably from the 17th century (The Met)

The Collapse of Editing in Book Publishing #221: if the vast Penguin Random House empire can't even be bothered to proofread the first page of Julian Barnes's last book, what hope does anyone else have?

Congratulations to AHA member Paige Donaghy on the publication of her new book "Mola, False Conception, and False Pregnancy in British Medicine, 1550—1850" -- follow the link to grab your own copy! boydellandbrewer.com/book/mola-fa...

Ian Tyrrell generously gave his time to chat with me and David Goodman about his career and life. Shout-out to Ruth Morgan for editing a whole issue about Ian's work and influence. www.jstor.org/stable/48844...

Re-upping: a whole special issue on Ian Tyrrell's life & work. www.jstor.org/stable/e4852.... Ping @oah.org @historians.org @shearites.bsky.social @shgape.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social @modamhist.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social

One longtime Victorian arts leader tells the Guardian: “I think the wider cultural shock is [Melbourne] is going to go from the cultural capital to the least funded city in Australia.” New from me today:

It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

I missed this last week but I nearly fell off my chair reading this quote from Angus Taylor in the @theguardian.com this morning... Having spent much of last year in the NLA collections relating to international students during that period I HAVE THOUGHTS & this ridiculous sentence makes me FURIOUS.

Leonard Janiszewski reviews ‘Ikarians in South Australia, 1900–1945: Emigration, Settlement, Community Building and Integration’, by Yianni (John) Cartledge. Published by Anthem Press doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Michael Belgrave reviews ‘The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860’, by Erik Olssen. Published by Auckland University Press doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Lorinda Cramer reviews ‘Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War’ by Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw. Published by Rowman & Littlefield. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Ross Webb reviews ‘Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand’ by Lyndy McIntyre. Published by Otago University Press. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Annabel Cooper reviews ‘Caught on Screen: Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television’ by James Findlay. Published by Bloomsbury. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

#OTD 16 Feb 1909 #suffragette Muriel Matters took to the air in a #dirigible over #London to leaflet state opening of Parliament with Votes for Women leaflets. Blow off course but made headlines around world 🌍. Listen to her story ow.ly/5JAC30iqFp7 or read about her en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_...

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Another reprint of 'Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook'! Pick up a copy of Alice Te Punga Somerville's bestselling Text in bookshops now. www.bwb.co.nz/books/two-hund... #BWBTexts

Welsh artist Gwen John, Self Portrait, 1902 #womensart

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

Unexpectedly seeing your name on the feed amongst a stellar lineup rules. My piece with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social in here is maybe frozen in 2021 in some ways but I will forever stand by the underlying principle that history as a discipline has a real problem with embodiment it won't face up to.

Grab a ☕ and revisit a History Australia Collection! History in practice: Trove Special Section. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah... Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.

I have an essay in it on the political pen of the socialist intellectual Beatrice Webb, which explores how elite women used writing to assert expertise - purposefully, artfully, and never without cost.

The conflation of political activism with marches and rallies is problematic flattening history into simple progress narratives and oversimplifying the work of scholars. This limits the vision of modern-day organizers. Let's complicate our understanding of social movement history.🧵 #sschat 🗃️

25/7/1988, The Go-Betweens📸Steve Pyke

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-...

centenary of Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social first Librarian, Vera Douie. Readers sent letters for items to be posted and researched. Vera made a copy & filed it digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

I've been in organisations where older members were incredibly annoyed at my cohort's lack of attendance on week nights etc. and it took me a while to work out men in their cohort were allowed, and expected, to just abandon spouses and children at home

It's out! This new article by me and my wonderful collaborator Charlotte Ann Legg looks at race, labour and affinities of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia around the time of the White Australia policy. Part of our special issue on Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific🗃️

Landmark History! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

a piece of good news to cleanse your timeline www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Publication day! My article on how to read an 18C newspapers, on digital remediation, and on the unfree press out in the world. Thanks @andy-schocket.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social & M. Karrs for making it all possible. @universitypress.cambridge.org lnkd.in/eEwbdbSw

What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year? Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊

‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...