So delighted to see 'Playtime' reviewed by Marian Quartly alongside 'Fathering' and its stellar collective of authors!

Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog. Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol. Read more here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...

In the latest #VIDAblog Margaret Allen remembers Emeritus Professor Alison MacKinnon. Read about Alison's impact and achievements here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/remembe...

Rachel Franks @cfwriter.bsky.social reviews ‘Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer, and Her Criminal Son’ by Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex @lucysussex.bsky.social La Trobe University Press www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.

The NLA has digitized heaps of PNG parliamentary debates, including from the colonial legislative council (1951-63) and house of assembly (64-75). Keyword searchable too. www.library.gov.au/news-media/p...

I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George Rudé Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thrilled to have received this commendation at the History Council of NSW Awards! Congratulations is also due to the amazing Ros Bluett, John Jacobs and Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for their work on this. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Publication Day! "Since 1980, the peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand have fundamentally changed through new policies and new patterns of migration – from a largely Pākehā population with 10 per cent Māori in 1980 to today’s megadiversity ...." aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/edges-of-emp... #migration

Ken Inglis Postgrad Prize CLOSING SOON - 30 Sept. Did you present a paper at the AHA conference? Tidy it up and email it to us at [email protected] Read the flier for all the T&Cs. You might get published in the journal...good luck!

Incredibly grateful to both @historynsw.bsky.social and the Addison Road Community Organisation for this recognition!

The final article from our special section of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social is out! Important work from Catherine Kevin. Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“This is a significant and exciting volume in terms of its scale, the range of disciplines, approaches and topics covered, and ultimately, for its contribution to the field of Indonesian history ... " Great review of 'Rethinking Histories of Indonesia': www.insideindonesia.org/archive/arti...

PSA that there is cheap (good!) lunch on campus at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre cafe. The woman today told me I was only the third person in for the day — it’s quiet and they need our support! Level 4 of the building with the student food court. UniMelb people please reshare 🙏🏼

Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social reviews ‘The Southern Frontier: Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World’ by Rowan Howitt @mupublishing.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‬Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social ‪reviews ‘Enchantment by Birds: A History of Birdwatching in 22 Species’, by Russell McGregor @scribepub.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A nail-biting scene – a worker demolishes the brick chimney of a building in Sydney’s Darling Harbour in December, 1970 (photo by Noel Stubbs, Fairfax Archives)

Raelene Frances reviews 'Untold Intimacies: A History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978–2008' by Cheryl Ware @cherylware.bsky.social Published by Auckland University Press www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW at #VIDAblog! Judith Brett shares her experiences writing the biography of Australian author and women’s activist Beatrice Faust. Read it here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/fearles...

🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077

What a shindy they are kicking up!

My book is available for preorder @melvillehouse.bsky.social! It’s about The Hite Report—the 50M-copy feminist sexology bestseller—its wild, visionary author Shere Hite and culture wars then and now. Out April '26! mhpbooks.com/books/the-bo...

ANU and the Search Foundation are offering a PhD with $100,000 top up to complete the final (1970-91) volume of the history of the Communist Party of Australia. 👇

The AFLJ is looking for a Publication and Media Support Officer to assist with its copyediting, outreach and engagement activities! Are you a Melbourne-based graduate researcher with an interest in feminism and law? This position could be perfect for you! drive.google.com/file/d/16z3u...

Real countries need to keep learning about their history – James Belich www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/real-coun...

@reproutopia.bsky.social (from Enemy Feminisms): "Feminism, in its best instances, is a burning prison: an insistence that life can be worth living and that every person's pleasure matters." ❤️🔥

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

And here's a little cat made of woven grass by Angus McPhee 😻 (photo by Am Baile; Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust)

Remembering the great David Stratton, who did so much to liberalise Australia's draconian censorship laws in the late 60s and early 70s. Here's a link to a Flashback I made for the #SFF where he recalls the battle over the Swedish film, I Love, You Love. youtu.be/6otcpod1Ah8?...

I’m recruiting a PhD student to work with me in Melbourne on the history of empire in Micronesia and the Pacific. We are offering a full scholarship, Australian and international students can apply. More info here, please reach out if you are interested www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

Congratulations to the Australian National Dictionary Centre's director Amanda Laugesen. Her book 'Australia in 100 Words' has just been shortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australian History).

Looking forward to joining this lineup in Sydney on August 17 to celebrate Antigone Kefala’s distinctive fiction and poetry. Once undersung and marginalised, her work is gaining new admirers with recent publications here and in the US.

I've just discovered these brilliantly curated lists from Volume books in Nelson! And Fragments as Form includes Terrier Worrier: volume.nz/volumebooks/...

You better not be wearing the isolator when I get there Me:

💫 Open access from 21 August! 💫 Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY press.anu.edu.au/publications... Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷

If you love books (esp memoirs & diaries), are in Adelaide and are free 11am-12 noon tomorrow, I'm giving a free talk about the memoir trilogies (soon to be quartets) of Mary Karr & Mandy Sayer, and Helen Garner's diaries, at the State Library of South Australia. www.slsa.sa.gov.au/events/tuesd...

It is 2025, and someone *now* is preparing to publish an 1850s pastoralist’s diary *editing out* all the coded bits where he describes murdering Yamatji people. In 2025. But sure, let’s hear more about how the Great Australian Silence is over.

Reading Janet McCalman's work for a new project and came across Carla Pascoe Leahy's excellent reflection on the influence and legacy of Struggletown. Hope the @historyaustralia.bsky.social have future articles commissioned for their 'Landmark Histories in Retrospect' series: doi.org/10.1080/1449...

Open access! @anncurthoys.bsky.social from our forum on DV history in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social Full article: Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–1900 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Re-entering the online world of academia to share my latest work post-mat leave -- my very pithily titled article "Another Human Sacrifice Thrown to the Pitiless Moloch of Police Power" on anti-vaccination politics at the turn of the twentieth century. TLDR below.

🚨 New article published today: I explore findings from interviews with young people who described how coercive control by parents shaped their daily lives and long-term wellbeing. 👉🏼 Read here: theconversation.com/i-was-very-f...

If you would like to add your voice in support, you can sign here: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/w2nbCBNqgB...

definitely the worst thing about the destruction of mass media and the fragmentation of audiences is political changes that would’ve otherwise been defeated by a media campaign (e.g the government disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people) just aren’t challenged, let alone won, anymore

In an extract from her new book, Narungga poet and researcher Natalie Harkin reveals intimate truths about the shameful history of Aboriginal domestic labour. 👉 theconversation.com/friday-...

Sheer vandalism. Aotearoa / NZ showing its determination to institutionally forget its history. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

NZ's Ministry for Culture and Heritage has been home to many exceptional historians and done invaluable work to promote understanding of the nation's past at home and around the world Now that the barbarians are in charge, that will be no more

'The disestablishment of four out of five senior historian jobs has been confirmed, among a total of 30 or so job cuts proposed last month to save money after the ministry's funding was reduced in Budget 2025.' 🤬