"Mothers of [autistic &] disabled children deserved to be viewed & treated as the warm, caring, attuned parents they were. […] Yet in being cast as ‘refrigerator mothers’, they were branded a fundamental causal factor of their child’s disability" -Dr Kate McAnelly: www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women. It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

New post by @drkdwatson.bsky.social and Carolyn Strange: "Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents" legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/09/23/p...

New research considers the true value of Meanjin, using publicly available data. The journal has trained generations of Australian writers and editors.

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-...

This week on Wonkhe: Institutions are wary of speaking about Israel's actions in Gaza, but that silence has consequences, argues Aneeza Pervez

What if history could be 'weightless'? Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron expand on their collaboration, This is a Temporal Landscape You Will Find No Direction Here, a digital assemblage for reimagining our relationship to the radical histories before us: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...

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...

NEW at #VIDAblog! Tanya Fitzgerald (@archive-dweller.bsky.social) explores women’s access to higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand at the end of the nineteenth century 🎓 This is part of our "Women's Education" series, edited by Kaitlin Mills. Read it here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/a-matte...

Under the Trump administration, the widespread, coordinated suppression of dissent is are ripping apart the fabric of American political life.

Thanks @rubyekkel.bsky.social for the opportunity to showcase the work Kerrie Saunders & I did for #MurrayDarlingBasinAuthority through #AustralianRiversinstitute

PNG’s founding leaders didn’t just inherit Australian institutions – they reimagined how they could best suit the country’s traditional culture. 👉 theconversation.com/50-year...

NEW at #VIDAblog! Kerrie Saunders and @mcookhistory.bsky.social explore Kamilaroi women’s knowledge of nature, country, and history. The "Environment and Gender" series is guest edited by @rubyekkel.bsky.social. Read it here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/listeni...

#AWGSA's Upcoming Seminars 💥 Registrations are now open! 💫 26 September, 12 - 1pm Sandy O'sullivan & Han Reardon-Smith Register here: events.humanitix.com/copy-of-onli... 💫 28 November 12 - 1pm Sophie Hindes & Brooklyn Donnelly Register Here: events.humanitix.com/online-resea...

We are also delighted to award a commendation for the Addi Rd Multicultural History Award to Dominique Jones for her essay, 'Rethinking Histories of Australian Multiculturalism: Diasporic Tensions and the Macedonian Question during the Bicentenary' Please join us in congratulating Dominique!

I'll be speaking at this event: The 80th anniversary of World War II & the formation of the #UN United Nations. What have we learnt and what may the next 80 years hold? Join us at @curtinuniversity.bsky.social tomorrow evening, brought to you by the Faculty of Humanities and #GlobalFutures Curtin.

We are thrilled this year to be able to present a Commendation for the Public History award category, which goes to Dr Kath Kenny for this experimental and playful work that blends history and creative non-fiction, entitled 'Walking on Water' Please join us in congratulating Kath! #HCNSWAwards

The Australian Academy of the Humanities is pleased to announce the outstanding researchers selected for the 2025 Publication Subsidy Scheme: bit.ly/4nn9p2C The grants will support the publication of new humanities research of national and international significance. @pctang.bsky.social

The judges also awarded a Commendation for the Jill Roe Regional History Award to Dr Meg Foster, for her engaging podcast, 'Sam Poo: a Chinese Bushranger?' Congratulations Dr Meg Foster! #HCNSWAwards #HistoryAwards #HistoryWeek2025

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

The winner of the 2025 Jill Roe Regional History Award is Zoe Smith for her essay, No Place for a Woman’: Historicising rural, regional, and remote domestic violence in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australia Please join us in congratulating Zoe! #HCNSWAwards #HistoryAwards

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!

We are delighted to announce the 2025 winner of the Max Kelly Award is Ruby Ekkel for her essay 'What comes of the kangaroos and the wallabies?' A gendered history of native animals and the New South Wales Bands of Mercy movement, 1884–1923 Please join us in congratulating Ruby!

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....

Meanjin published the cream of Australia’s writers. With its sudden closure, a vital, 85-year thread of our cultural conversation will fall silent.

Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.

Exclusive | Louise Adler told Crikey, “Institutions like Meanjin, and it is an institution, are easy to close down. Their replacements much harder to create."

The Australian Women's History Network supports our members' truth-telling about Palestine. We are proud to be a scholarly organisation that speaks out against settler colonialism and genocide.

Standing in the shower this morning I was thinking about the many restructures and redundancies I’ve seen over the course of my career in the Humanities, so I turned it into a blog post www.mikejonesonline.com/contextjunky... #humanities #universities

OTD in 1898 a political poem by 'S. A. R., Padiham' (Sarah Robinson) was published in the 'Yorkshire Factory Times'. Kirstie Blair introduces Sarah Ann Robinson, a virtually unknown Lancashire weaver and poet, who used the radical press to relay her first-hand experience of the factory floor.

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...

Brand new NOTCHES post out now! Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px #historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory

Supernatural women in medieval literature seem to inhabit opposite ends of a moral spectrum: saints good, sorceresses bad. Kathryn Walton’s article in @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, though, shows that medieval images of female power were much more kaleidoscopic than we assume. muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...

Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.

Female Spy Network Uncovered in Medieval Ypres, Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2025/06/fema... #Spy

The Liberal Party used to lead the way on female representation and socially liberal policies. History shows us where the party’s “women problem” began. 👉 theconversation.com/the-lib...

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...

New article by me on professional women as a ‘commodity frontier’ in the history of capitalism: The massive influx of women to white collar professions in the 1990s was the culmination of around a century of women’s efforts. But then… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The latest blog from VIDA by Bridget Brooklyn, "Feminism and Eugenics: Strange Bedfellows?" ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/feminis...

Exemptions to copyright legislation for AI would disadvantage Australian writers – and set a bad precedent. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-pro...

How did making banners help women to express themselves and support one another at Greenham Common Peace Camp? Maisie Jepson (@girlinthewrongera.bsky.social) explores this creative process and explains why motherhood was such a prominent theme.

A vivid Torres Strait Islander story emphasising the tragedy of colonial rule and a slow-burning postwar tale of a white woman in Japan are engaging historical novels.

🎒 A reminder that our Lynette Russell Prize 2025 is open for applications! The prize is awarded to a project in a Victorian school that displays knowledge, engagement and creativity when engaging with First Peoples' Histories. ➡️ More: www.historycouncilvic.org.au/lynette_russ...

In our latest blog, prominent LGBTQIA+ Rights Activist Bill Rutkin (OAM) and Contributing Editor Michael Stockwell explore how Queensland’s gay community flouted convention and defied the odds to hold the world’s longest running LGBTQIA+ event, the Queens Ball. www.auswhn.com.au/blog/the-que...

Your #openaccess ☕📘 coffee read 📘☕ sorted! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #historyaustralia @dranastevenson.bsky.social on ‘Workin’ 9 to 9, 24/7’: political humour about Australian politicians and ministerial staffers during the Rudd-Gillard era

Opinion | "Humanities and social sciences academics are signing petitions, writing open letters and organising actions in response to these threats to their jobs. They are anxious and angry."

It has been a year since my first journal article examining The Australian Women’s Weekly’s coverage of sexual violence during the 1970s was published. If you’re interested in media, cultural and/or women’s histories it is free to read. doi.org/10.1080/1449...

In our latest #VIDAblog, prominent LGBTQIA+ activist Bill Rutkin (OAM) and contributing editor Michael Stockwell explore how homosexual men living in Queensland during the Bjelke-Petersen era used lavender language to circumvent public and political vilification ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/camp-na...

Your support is needed - sign the petition opposing the Job-ready Graduates Scheme www.openpetition.org/au/petition/... @austhistassoc.bsky.social

“‘With daggers in her bonnet’: The Australian hatpin panic of 1912” www.auswhn.com.au/blog/hatpin-...