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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Published online, an article by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, ‘The Emotional Labour of Feminism: Australia’s International Women’s Year 1975’. Abstract below. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Published online ahead-of-print, an article by Judith Brett,’ Civil Liberties, Humanism, and Feminism: The Political Formation of Three Abortion Law Reform Campaigners – Beryl Henderson, Julia Freebury, and Beatrice Faust’. Abstract below. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Published online ahead-of-print, an article by Jesse Adams Stein, Elizabeth Humphrys, and Bettina Frankham, ‘Safe Bodies, Hot Plastic? Practical Issues in the Introduction of High-Visibility Workwear (Hi-Vis) in Australia, 1960s–80s’. Abstract below. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Raewyn Dalziel reviews ‘Isaac Featherston ‘Petatone’: A Colonial Life’, by John E. Martin Published by Te Herenga Waka University Press www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Eugene Schofield-Georgeson reviews ‘A Fair Day’s Work: The Quest to Win Back Time’, by Sean Scalmer Published by Melbourne University Press www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jim McAloon reviews ‘The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa’, by Catherine Comyn Published by Economic and Social Research Aotearoa www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jock Phillips reviews ‘The Last Tour: Paul and Eslanda Robeson’s Visit to Australia and New Zealand’, by Ann Curthoys Published by The Miegunyah Press www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This time next week a whole host of AHA members will be speaking as part of the Aus Academy of the Humanities and CHASS' symposium on academic freedom. It's free and open to the public: register your attendance at the link! humanities.org.au/events/acade...

James Watson reviews ‘Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia’ by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social, Andrew Saniga and David Beynon Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social reviews ‘Clever Men: How Worlds Collided on the Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948’, by Martin Thomas @anu-chl.bsky.social Allen & Unwin @allenandunwin.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Greg Ryan reviews ‘Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia’, by Matthew Allen McGill-Queen’s University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New book reviews just published online 👀📚👏🏽 Matthew Ricketson reviews ‘Australian Newspapers in the Television Age, 1956–2006’, by Rodney Tiffen Anthem Press @anthempress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Mary Blight (Curtin), runner up of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the AHA conference. Read the judges’ citation below. Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.

Congratulations to Zoe Smith (ANU), winner of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the annual AHA conference @austhistassoc.bsky.social Thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social for supporting the prize. Read the judges’ citation below

Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social reviews ‘Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism, and the Archive’, by Anthea Taylor Published by Routledge tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social reviews ‘The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and Its Afterlives’ by Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles and Jonathan Richards. @anupress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our Nov issue is up, guest ed is Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social it’s devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia. It’s also the final issue for outgoing eds Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley–thanks for your excellent stewardship these last four years www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...

Published online ahead-of-print an article by Zoë Laidlaw, ‘Capital, Agents and Absentees: Port Phillip Pastoralism and the Profits of Slavery’. It's also freely available via open access - abstract below. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Artie McCarthy reviews the exhibition 'Mr Squiggle and Friends: The Creative World of Norman Hetherington', National Museum of Australia, Canberra. It's free to read for 3-mths, thanks to the journal's publisher Taylor & Francis @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cameron Logan @cameronlogan.bsky.social reviews, 'Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner', by Alana Piper @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mark Finnane reviews, 'The Last Outlaws: The Crimes of Jimmy & Joe Governor and the Birth of Modern Australia', by Katherine Biber Scribner @scribnerbooks.bsky.social tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Matthew Cunneen reviews the exhibition, ‘Nolan: For the Term of His Natural Life’, at Canberra Museum and Gallery. A reminder that exhibition reviews are free to read for 3-mths from online publication date, thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Published online, an open access article by Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social ‘1975: Working Migrant Women’. It's part of a guest-edited special issue due out in May 2026, ‘Fifty Years On: Rethinking the Legacies of Australia’s International Women’s Year (1975)’. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Kate Ariotti reviews ‘Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45’ by Joan Beaumont @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Elizabeth Bowyer reviews ‘Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific 1880–1920’ by Kate Stevens @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

More book reviews published online ahead of print - first up, David A. Roberts reviews ‘Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales’ by Stephen Gapps @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Geraldine Fela, winner of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History for her book, 'Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia's AIDS Crisis'. Read Shirleene Robinson's review in AHS here, doi.org/10.1080/1031...

CLOSING NEXT WEEK - submit your entry by Tuesday 30 September to be in the running for the Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize. Did you present a paper at the AHA conference in July? Email it to us: [email protected] See the pinned post for more details.

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 👏