Excited to be part of this incredible team writing the first history of grandparenting in Australia! grandparentsaustralia.net

We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow night at the next History Now event at the Chau Chak Wing Museum Tickets are still available, but if you are unable to join us in-person, this event will also be live-streamed Learn more via buff.ly/WtAmOqw @drcraigb.bsky.social

My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...

Pride History Group and Oral History NSW are hosting a joint event on LGBTQIA+ Life Stories in Sydney on Nov 27. All welcome! Book your free ticket here: www.pridehistory.org.au/events/2025/... #oralhistory #queerhistory #sydney

Two History postdocs at UNSW (Sydney) and the net is wide: "open to candidates working on any time period from Ancient History to Contemporary History, any area or region, incl. global and international history, and any methodology, incl. oral history, gender history, history of race and more."

Why did 4 LA historical and cultural organizations have the courage to speak out against Trump's ICE raids this summer? I interviewed their leaders and wrote about their commitment to drawing parallels with the past while caring for their communities. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/museums-arch...

Wondering how AI will (and does already) impact history teaching? Register for this upcoming workshop, presented by the AHA, exploring just that! Follow the link for all the details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ANU ‘dictionary centre is a national asset — once it’s gone, we lose a living record of our national voice’ theconversation.com/the-anu-is-m...

We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Excellent piece by Caitlin Macdonald on the open letter to abolish Job-Ready graduates. @aunz.theconversation.com Caitlin argues without the humanities, and the tools to think deeply, imagine ethically & reason clearly, we risk leaving students 'soul-starved'. theconversation.com/top-australi...

Who will tell the histories of our shared pasts? We invite everyone to read our statement of concern on the planned downsizing of academic positions in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the closure of The Australian National Dictionary via buff.ly/A5sAcbC 📷 Wikimedia Commons

I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I'm excited to share details about The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project! This project is identifying & creating a list of precarious oral history collections held in Victoria, Australia. Tell us about your collection via www.precariousoralhistories.com #oralhistory

***Digital History Seed Grants*** The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields. Deadline: 8/1/25 iehs.org/awards/seed_...

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

Check out this new special issue on Citizenship and Migration co-edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social for the Journal of American and Ethnic History! The introduction is open access and available to all for free. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

Members! Don't forget to register for the 2025 AGM, on next week - especially important if you're attending virtually! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I wrote an amicus brief supporting resettlement agencies and refugees hurt by this terrible policy. It’s about the history of refugee resettlement — a history that the Trump admin wants to just disregard. refugeerights.org/wp-content/u...

Australia’s multilingualism is fuelled by migration flows. However, migrant communities struggle to pass on their languages to the next generation once settled. But new research, led by Assoc Prof Antonia Rubino, shows grandchildren are reclaiming their linguistic heritage. bit.ly/3FVF5vY

📜 Nominate your work today for the History Council of New South Wales History Awards! A total of $6,000 in prize money is on offer in a number of prestigious award categories Registrations close 8 July at 5pm so discover more via buff.ly/Vrb98GC 📷 TWH Photography

Call for Proposals: Jecca Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, Amy Chazkel, and Evan Taparata are co-editing a special issue of Radical History Review focused on mobility regimes. Interested authors are invited to submit a 1-2 page proposal by June 15, 2025. www.radicalhistoryreview.org/mobility-reg...

Come along to the first History Now event of the year at Chau Chak Wing Museum! Hear Postdoctoral Research Fellow Geraldine Fela and Associate Professor Leigh Boucher explore the complex and exciting process of podcasting history Register via buff.ly/GCcUSpP #HistoryNow2025 📷 Supplied

An exhibition worth making time for: 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is at the Potter Museum of Art (Naarm/Melbourne) from May 30 to November 23, 2025. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

The State Library of NSW Fellowships are now accepting applications! There are nine Fellowships offering amazing pools of research funding -- get working on your projects! All the details are here: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards...

In May 2000, Australians marched to symbolise coming together. But in the decades that followed, promises to Indigenous people have gone unfulfilled.

Want to support our amazing members who are precariously employed? Make a tax-deductible donation to the AHA Public Fund! Your donations make a very real difference in what is a turbulent time for the university sector -- consider giving today! theaha.org.au/donate

Excited to share this call for bursary applications! We're supporting 10 x Early Career Researchers and/or Industry applicants to attend the 2025 Digital Humanities Australasia Conference (DHA25). Details below! #digitalhumanities #data #RSE #GLAM #research

We're thrilled to announce that The Portal Trust has become an inaugural donor of the UK’s first permanent Migration Museum. The Portal Trust will provide £0.5 million in funding over the next three years to help us establish a permanent home in the City of London, opening in 2028.

With postdocs in any field a real rarity these days, it's great to see this one just opened up in Pacific History at the University of Sydney 🗃️ Plus you'll be working with wonderful people like @historymatterssyd.bsky.social Psst @journalpacifichist.bsky.social

A reminder that applications close this Thursday 15 May for our new Laureate Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social. Details below!

It is that time of year again - the State Library of NSW Fellowships are open for applications. I am greatly enjoying my time as the Coral Thomas Fellow, and look forward to welcoming the next incumbent. Think about applying now. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards...

A few weeks ago we hosted a one-day workshop supported by the ANU Gender Institute. The topic: women's firsts and the privilege of trailblazing. Read a recap of the event here - and keep watching this space for more 📚 genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/news/privile...

Interested in oral history? I'll be running an introductory seminar in Sydney on 17 May for Oral History NSW - we'll cover all the basics and have time for a chat about your projects, ideas and questions. Details here: www.oralhistorynsw.org.au/events/2025/...

All welcome to the next UNSW History seminar with @lucydelap.bsky.social on Wed 30th April (not usual Tuesday), 12:30-2pm EST, at Room 353 Morven Brown or via Zoom (email me for link). Lucy's paper: “‘Shut-in’ in Leicester: disability as a category and question of historical analysis.”

These amnesties occurred under successive Labor and Liberal federal governments, and each enjoyed enthusiastic bipartisan support.

❗The CFP for the ANZSHM 2025 Conference has been extended ❗ Please submit abstracts by Friday 21st March via the conference website: www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

I’m so pleased to be a part of this fascinating SBS documentary series, which tells the story of Australia in the 1970s through the Film Australia archive. The first episode will be broadcast tonight! www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

Abstract due date extended to 7 March. AMHN stream convened by Alexandra Dellios and Ebony Nilsson ⭐️

What's it like working as a historian in Australia? bit.ly/4hPLJSl Today we begin a new series offering international perspectives on #history in higher education. We begin with a view from @austhistassoc.bsky.social by the AHA's @michellearrow.bsky.social & @kfullagar.bsky.social #skystorians

ANZSHM's next conference will be held in Sydney, 8-12 July 2025, with the theme ‘Health History in the Making’ 🍎 CFPs are due 28 February & we have a range of bursaries for ECR colleagues! Check out our conference website here: www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

The PHA NSW-ACT has partnered with the Oral History Association of NSW to create "Working as a Freelance Historian/Oral Historian" It's open to anyone in Australia. Monday 3rd March from 5.30-7.15pm AEST. www.phansw.org.au/upcoming-eve...

This article by @IsobelleBM and I was a long time in the making. It examines the 1976 Australian film ‘Do I have to kill my child?’, written by Anne Deveson, and which features in the upcoming @SBS series ‘Australia: an Unofficial History’. Open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you're looking for news from fellow historians, try our Starter Pack of #History societies and networks go.bsky.app/68FsvjY. With 100+ organisations working for history, it offers information on events, funding and campaigning for our discipline and profession: UK, Europe & RoW #skystorians

Are you an experienced oral historian in Australia, New Zealand or Southeast Asia who would like to learn how to teach oral history in community, academic or professional contexts? OHV are running a train the trainer workshop on 15 March: events.humanitix.com/ohv-advanced...

Inheriting the Family: Object, Identities and Emotions. Now available open access as a free PDF (though much easier to access from the OAPEN website than from Bloomsbury's, ahem): library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.