Exciting new book haul this week!

I’m delighted to share that my first journal article has been published in the special issue 'Labour Archives and Methodologies' of Labour History. Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...

Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.

Know anyone who would want to come work with me? 1 year position for someone with a HASS background (don’t need to be a programmer), working on a tool to search historical documents like colonial Hansard. unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

A great example of innovative storytelling!

Help, the bot I fed on racism has turned out to be a racist. theconversation.com/historical-i...

If any historians would like to review the following, please get in touch! * 'Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country' exhibition at the Museum of Sydney * 'Australia: an unofficial history' (SBS series) * 'Chinese Australian Whispers' podcast

Help us reach our target of 5000 signatures - please sign and share!

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/...

New HLQ special issue. What counts as an exhibition? As art? As respectable or "high" art? How did colonialism, empire, and race shape artistic production, display, and consumption? #arthistory #skystorians #BritishArt nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

I love my fabulous HIST1051 colleagues!

Gaza is starving! Sanction Israel NOW

“This case affirms a powerful truth: that voices of descendants matter, that oral histories passed down through the generations of Black families carry weight and wisdom”

Our co-edited book has been published in Palgrave's Politics of Mental Health and Illness series (edited by Bruce M.Z. Cohen), w chapters on Māori mental health, depathologisation of trans health, community mental health, digitalisation of mental health & more /1 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

I made a colour-coded A-Z directory of every Pokémon and later, Digimon, I encountered, with details like their type, attacks, and evolved forms. 😎

I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums: "'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War" Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms. It really works.

How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism theconversation.com/how-ai-image...

We are thrilled to announce the journal's relaunch editorial, reflecting on the publication's 25-year-history & our vision for its future: considering changes & continuities for both Britain & visual culture since 2000, fostering a space of ‘epistemic generosity’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The @austhistassoc.bsky.social is pleased to enhance its advocacy work this year. A short thread here on our terms, reach, submissions, statements, and tips for defending history: theaha.org.au/advocacy/

Presenting to the world, Princess Coco 👑✨️

Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268... #dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky

My PhD thesis 'Visual Cultures of Empire: India and Australia, 1860 - 1940' is finally available online to read and download! hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518...

Trove API users beware! I had a meeting with the NLA on Friday about my cancelled API keys and was shocked by changes in their policy towards API use that could have a big impact of HASS research using #trove data. More details […]

Archaeologists have discovered iron objects at six sites in Tamil Nadu, dating back to 2,953–3,345 BCE, or between 5,000 to 5,400 years old. This suggests the process of extracting, smelting, forging and shaping iron to may have developed independently in the Indian subcontinent.

I find this move from the NLA quite hard to comprehend. Tim's Glam Workbench and its plethora of helpful tools and Juptyer notebooks are key to digital historical research in Australia, including my own. I hope those concerned realise the value of Tim's work and reverse this appalling decision.

An excellent article from Lorena Allam and Nick Evershed on the Australian Colonial Frontier Massacres project led by the late EP Lyndall Ryan of CSOV and its ground breaking online map. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Traffic to my research project's blog, Graphic Encounter: Colonial Prints and the Inscription of Aboriginality, would be greatly appreciated: graphic-encounters.blogs.latrobe.edu.au

Quick little lunchtime cocktail to celebrate being officially PhDone!!! Bring on graduation! 🎓

🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social) openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

I assigned essays that ask for opinions (backed up by facts, citing the assigned texts). That effectively catches the AI, but it's been a bummer handing out so many Ds and Fs. So, now I'm begging them not to use AI in their own self-interest.

Historians, I need your assistance. Can anyone suggest studies that deal with veterans' groups using the media to advance their interests? Bonus points if they relate to Australia, but studies relating to US, UK/Europe also work for my purposes. TIA!

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now! It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life. Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

I've been relishing in all the cuddles from this girl while I reset myself from the haze of my PhD submission and holiday festivities 🐶

Going to physical archives helps us realize -the illusion that 'everything' is online -how much of historical record has already been lost -the inadequacy of the written -the selectivity of digitization projects Great @contingent-mag.bsky.social piece, and thanks for shout-out to archivists' labor!

Funded PhD in photographic history: please share widely! With The Story, Durham and @durhamhistory.bsky.social, 'Images and Empire in British Military Collections' will examine the photo archive of the Durham Light Infantry regiment over its 90-year history. Apply by January 31st! 🗃️📜📷📸

So thrilled to announce that I submitted my PhD!! I started this ordinary, extraordinary journey when I took a leap of faith and moved to Australia almost 4.5 years ago. One global pandemic later, it all ended with a quick upload on Canvas 😬 #PhDone

The Australian Historical Association is now on Bluesky! We'll be sharing information about the latest developments, news, and events relevant to the discipline of history in Australia -- give us a follow!

I’ve begun a historians of South Asia (broadly defined) starter pack, let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/zUV84F

Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...

I'll be using this a great deal. Already found some incredible materials. Open access collections on colonial and global history. globalarchives.lnu.se/explore