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....

Today marks 50 years of Papua New Guinean independence! In honour of the occasion, Brad Underhill, Keimelo Gimapau, and Helen Gardner published Debating the Nation: Speeches from the House of Assembly, 1972-1975. On APH, Nick Ferns reviews the new collection! aph.org.au/2025/09/book... #PNG

ABC Radio National's #Top100Books of the 21st century (so far). Voting closes in 18 days. 📚 #books #BookSky www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...

People in Melbourne, get along to the rally at 9am tomorrow (Thursday 11 September) on the footpath outside Melbourne University Press (715 Swanston Street, Carlton) to demand that Meanjin be saved. (I'll be there in spirit)

Hi there! Welcome! Do follow Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine! @anzshm.bsky.social

Great opportunity! @anzshm.bsky.social

Two Sydney Uni staff members are being sued in Australia's Federal Court by complainants who claim that statements opposing genocide and Zionist oppression of Palestinians are racist hate speech. Please give what you can to help @nickriemer.bsky.social & @professorjkeane.bsky.social's legal defence

📜 Witness History tonight with #hcnswmember Parliament of NSW Celebrate the centenary of Millicent Preston-Stanley’s 1925 election — the first female MP Register for the livestream taking place tonight at 5:30pm via buff.ly/MehlAx4 #NSWParliament #MillicentPrestonStanley #WomenInPolitics

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...

Trove has now digitised the Richmond Guardian from 1931-1936. If you're looking for local footy legends, vintage ads or just want a glimpse of what life was like for the residents of Richmond Victoria during the Depression, check it out! #trove #phavictas

Please share and join the MARCH FOR HUMANITY SAVE GAZA March across the Sydney Harbour Bridge Sunday 3 August 2025 Meeting at Lang Park 1pm Called for by the Palestine Action Group Sydney #MarchForHumanity #SaveGaza #FreePalestine

It baffles me that @australianlabor.bsky.social wants to hang this failed, unfair policy around its neck, when they could condemn it as a folly of the unpopular Morrison government and ditch it. Sign our petition to urge them to abolish it now! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness week in Australia 📢 I wrote a blog exploring the hidden histories of birth trauma and obstetric violence ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori... #birthtraumaawareness #birthtrauma #obstetricviolence

Me on: History shows Coalition split a trial separation, not a divorce www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/21/c...

A must-read for all historians. Time to take a public stand up against Israel’s atrocities in Gaza.

OMG, a JOB! La Trobe University is looking for a Level B or C in Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity Studies: check out the details here! careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/j...

On Thursday @ 12.30pm I'm joining the Australian Society of Archivists online to discuss 'Authors and Archives'. Sign up if you'd like to hear me on Miles Franklin's interwar archival activism, and Ben Lee and Andrew Dean on JM Coetzee's 1960s foray into AI www.archivists.org.au/events/event...

Registrations are open for the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine 19th Biennial Conference in Sydney this July. Details with provisional program available here. www.anzshm2025.com @anzshm.bsky.social

Come along to the next Introductory seminar to oral history with #hcnswmember Oral History NSW! Dr Eureka Henrich will explore some of the key ideas behind oral history as a research method and outline how to plan oral history projects on Saturday 17 May at 10:30 Register via the link below

Can recommend!

This will definitely be worth listening to!

Oral historians: Voices and photographs capturing early-mid 20thc student life at Melbourne Uni will appear today MPavilion Parkville. Only up for 3 days, 6-8 May, 11-3. On Thurs I’ll be there from 11-2 to chat about the project. @unilibrary.bsky.social @oralhistoryvic.bsky.social

Congratulations Effie!

📢📢📢 We are looking for contributors to respond to RFK’s recent eugenic-laden speech, his response to the measles outbreak, or any of his other policies. If you are interested you can DM this account or send us a pitch via our website. Please share widely! nursingclio.org/write-for-us...

Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’m so looking forward to this: I’ll be focusing on public servant activists and Liberal Party supporters who opposed the war in Vietnam.

Tomorrow! Our first seminar for the year, with Paula Michaels 🎉

Go for it, med hist ECRs! @anzshm.bsky.social

Looking forward to 'in conversation' with Steve Vizard about his new book, 'Nation, Memory, Myth. Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary' at the ANU on 8 May at 6pm. Free event and bookings at: www.anu.edu.au/events/meet-...

@philippabarr.bsky.social @anzshm.bsky.social

Charmaine Robson @charmr.bsky.social reviews 'Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague', by Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent! #histstm #histmed #sts

#Nursinghistory Are there any #Histmed who have data on tuition and fee costs for nursing students in the U.S. around 1900? Specifically, how much did they pay, and what was the expected number of work hours for nursing students around that time?

CFP: 21st International Conference of Australian Studies in China. More detail including registration info here: inasa.org/blog/call-fo...

Applications now open for 2026 Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at Seoul National University! More details & PD at the link below. Please share this exciting opportunity with senior Humanities and Social Sciences academics in your networks. inasa.org/blog/call-fo...

So Melbourne Uni is right on the cusp of interesting work around truth-telling and transformation in the Indigenous space, and my School is hiring a Professor of Indigenous Studies, and I could not be more excited. Please share widely with your networks! (Identified role, obviously)

An exciting #histsci PhD opportunity, with a great supervisory team and fabulous collections to work with

Let’s hope. Remember Morrison, the Minister for Everything?

📣 Call for Contributions! Australian Society of Archivists is calling for contributions for this years Conference: Telling Our Stories Share your experiences and research by 'telling our stories' from and about the archives Submissions close 28 April via buff.ly/LURlenL #ASA2025 #CallForPapers

Hobbins reviews Barr's Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“There’s a hierarchy of compassion and Palestinians reside at the bottom”. Loewenstein’s excellent review in today’s Sydney Morning Herald on Omar el Akkad’s book, ‘One Day Everyone Will Always have been against this’. edition.smh.com.au/shortcode/SY...

Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7! #STS #histstm #medanthro

❗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...

Librarians, archivists, any GLAM-adjacent folks, if you are looking for an opportunity to help preserve LGBTQ+ history, please see below! 📚

Have you published a history of medicine or health book between 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024? Apply for the 2025 ANZSHM Biennial Book Prize 📖 Nominations are due 1 March More info on our website: www.anzshm.org.au/book-prize #history #historyofmedicine #historyofhealth

Hear about the mothers, matrons and Lady Superintendents who worked in NSW prisons in 1788 -1969 with #hcnswmember City of Sydney Historical Association Join speaker Noeline Kyle AM on Saturday 8th March at 2pm for this historical lecture! No bookings required https://buff.ly/3LWF1Kk

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...

📣 Apply now to be our new Project Officer in First Nations Histories! This is an exciting opportunity for a Project Officer to produce First Nations programs for HCNSW Members and general audiences. Applications close Wednesday the 12th March Learn more via https://buff.ly/3PTaZuD @Create_NSW

We are honoured to be supporting the session 'Close to Home: Colonial Violence and Family Histories' @newwritersfest this April Hear John Maynard, Mark Dunn, Stephen Gapps, and Kate Grenville speak with Julie McIntyre Book your spot via https://buff.ly/4b1Gk7U