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....

Richard Waterhouse reviews, ‘We Are a Farming Class’: Dubbo’s Hinterland, 1870–1950, by Peter Woodley @anupress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thomas Richardson reviews ‘Beyond the Broken Years: Australian Military History in 1000 Books’ by Peter Stanley @stanleyhistorian.bsky.social @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Published online ahead-of-print, a new article by Nicholas Pitt, ‘Smallpox on the Limits of Location: The Politics of Diagnosis in New South Wales, 1830–34’. It's also freely available to read via open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Published online ahead of print, a new article by Anna McMichael, Kate Murphy & Judith Healy, ‘Commerce and Culture: Music Emporia and Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia’. It’s also open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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!

New article alert by Samuel Furphy ‘He Does Not Speak of Civilizing the Australians Now’: Matthew Moorhouse, Craniology, and Aboriginal Protection in South Australia, 1839–65. It's also Open Access and published ahead-of-print. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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....

Michelle Arrow, Anna Clark and Frank Bongiorno’s co-authored piece in The Conversation. @michellearrow.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @ouranu.bsky.social @utsengage.bsky.social #MacquarieUniversity

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....

Max Quanchi reviews the exhibition 'Say Our Name: Australian South Sea Islanders. Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Oct 2024–July 2025' AHS exhibition reviews are open access for three months, so share the link doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Rachel Standfield & Katherine Ellinghaus review 'Too Far Out: An Administrative History of the Ngaanyatjarra Homelands' by Max Angus Hesperian Press tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bridget Brooklyn reviews 'A Battle-Axe in the Bear Pit: Millicent Preston Stanley MP', by Wendy Michaels. A timely review as May 2025 marked 100 years since Millicent Preston-Stanley became NSW’s first female MP. Published by Connor Court tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ken Inglis Postgrad Prize - closes 30 Sept. Did you present a paper at the AHA conference? If so then read the flyer below for all the details. Email any inquiries and submissions to [email protected] Good luck 👏

Published online ahead of print, an article by S.J. Gale, ‘Leaving for Port Jackson: The First Fleet’s Abandonment of Botany Bay’. Abstract below. It’s also open access so freely available for anyone to read tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks for sharing @alanlester.bsky.social Yes, it is a shame that book reviews and many articles are behind a paywall or require institutional library access. Thanks for your excellent and considered review, as always 👏

While the 8 articles in our August issue (56.3) have been online for a while, they’re now collected under an editorial by Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley. The issue also includes an exhibition review & 15 book reviews. Take a look 👀📑👏 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...

Richard White reviews 'Colonial Adventure', by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver @mupublishing.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to our 2025 Prize Winners, announced last week at the AHA conference in Townsville!

Susan Sheridan reviews ‘Miles Franklin Undercover’, by Kerrie Davies Allen & Unwin @allenandunwin.bsky.social ‬ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Juanita Kwok reviews ‘Chinese Colonial Entanglements: Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880–1950’, edited by Julia T. Martínez, Claire Lowrie & Gregor Benton. University of Hawai’i Press www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social reviews ‘Inquiring into Empire: Colonial Commissions and British Imperial Reform, 1819–1833’, by Lisa Ford, Kirsten McKenzie, Naomi Parkinson & David Andrew Roberts Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

William Hoverd reviews 'Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900–1956', by Richard S. Hill & Steven Loveridge Auckland University Press www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

HDRs! Gearing up for the 2025 AHA Conference? Afterwards, consider applying for the Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize, for your chance to be published in Australian Historical Studies! Follow the link for more: theaha.org.au/wp-content/u...

Sarah Carter reviews ‘Rēwena and Rabbit Stew: The Rural Kitchen in Aotearoa, 1800–1940’, by Katie Cooper Auckland University Press www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Caroline Ingram @drci.bsky.social ‪reviews ‘O’Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre’, by Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social La Trobe University Press, with Black Inc. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shurlee Swain reviews ‘An Unlikely Survival: The Politics of Welfare in Australia Since 1950’ by John Murphy @mupublishing.bsky.social tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Henry Reynolds reviews 'Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy', by Clare Wright Text Publishing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exhibition reviews in our journal are free to access for three months from online publication date. Tracy Ryan’s review ‘Omnia: All and Everything. Tweed Regional Museum, 9 April 2024–23 November 2024. What Are Museums For?’ is free access to 30 August. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Rowan Light reviews two books: 'Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tūmatauenga. The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa', by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald & Rebecca Rice, and 'A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa', eds Catherine Hammond & Shaun Higgins doi.org/10.1080/1031...

New article published online ahead-of-print by Daniel Leach, 'The Day They Dropped the Atom Bomb on Healesville: Exercise Alphabet, the Army and Civil Defence in Australia, 1954–57' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ben Silverstein reviews 'Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision Making' (eds N. Watson & H. Douglas), and 'Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters between Law and Colonialism', J. Balint, J. Evans, N. McMillan & M. McMillan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize 2025: for PGs presenting papers at the AHA conference at JCU & CQU in July. The prize is offered by Australian Historical Studies & Routledge See the flyer, entries close 30 Sept. @austhistassoc.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @tandfonline.bsky.social

Ann Curthoys reviews 'Power and Dysfunction: The New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883–1940', by Richard Egan Published by ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Giselle Byrnes reviews 'Becoming Aotearoa: A New History of New Zealand', by Michael Belgrave. Massey University Press tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Jane Carey for winning the 2025 Ernest Scott Prize for her book, 'Taking to the Field: A History of Australian Women in Science'. You can read our AHS review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Martyn Jolly reviews ‘Until Justice Comes: Fifty Years of the Movement for Indigenous Rights Photographs 1970–2024’ by Juno Gemes. Published by Upswell www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New book review; James C. Murphy reviews ‘Race Mathews: A Life in Politics’, by Iola Mathews. Monash University Publishing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our latest issue (56.2), guest edited by Susan Broomhall, is a themed issue exploring Gender Histories of Resource Management in Settler Colonial Australia. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...

New article alert - Marvin Martin, 'Early German-Aboriginal Encounters at the Central Australian Hermannsburg Mission, 1877–91'. Published online first ahead of its inclusion in a special issue scheduled for later this year. It's also open access doi.org/10.1080/1031...

New article online from Matthew Allen (UNE), 'Debating the Moral and Political Economies of Convictism: Samuel Marsden’s Essays on Agriculture and the Spirit Trade in Early New South Wales'. Open access so freely available for all to read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social reviews 'Robert Philp and the Politics of Development' by Lyndon Megarrity Australian Scholarly Publishing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Richard S. Hill reviews 'Justice in Kelly Country: The Story of the Cop Who Hunted Australia’s Most Notorious Bushrangers', by Lachlan Strahan Monash University Publishing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Susanne Davies reviews 'Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840–1910' by Catharine Coleborne Bloomsbury @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Katie Holmes @katieholmes.bsky.social reviews 'John Büsst: Bohemian Artist and Saviour of Reef and Rainforest', by Iain McCalman @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Marilyn Lake reviews 'Travelling to Tomorrow: The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America', by Yves Rees NewSouth www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sean Scalmer reviews 'The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008' by Hannah Forsyth @hannahforsyth.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Leigh Straw reviews 'Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman' by Barbara Minchinton and Philip Bentley La Trobe University Press/Black Inc. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Cecilia Leong-Salobir reviews 'A Matter of Taste: The Australian Women’s Weekly and Its Influence on Australian Food Culture', by Lauren Samuelsson @clemloz.bsky.social Monash University Publishing doi.org/10.1080/1031...