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Australian Women's History Network
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~ https://www.auswhn.com.au/ ~ the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) promotes research, writing + advocacy in feminist, gender + women's history + publishes the peer-reviewed Lilith: A Feminist History Journal + #VIDAblog ~
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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 17d
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...
Remembering Alison MacKinnon (1941–2025) | Australian Women's History Network
Margaret Allen remembers Emeritus Professor Alison MacKinnon, AO, FASSA (1941–2025)
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 2d
If Labor wishes to reclaim its moral authority, it must break with the consultant paradigm: rebuild public governance, fund socially vital disciplines and restore universities as places of learning, not revenue streams. #auspol #universitiesAU
How the ALP outsourced the soul of higher education
For most of its history, the Australian Labor Party spoke of education as a public good, the light on the hill, a vision of collective progress through strong institutions, universal access, and the elevation of ordinary citizens.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 1d
📚 REVIEW: Anne Irfan’s history explains the complex background to Palestinian resistance in Gaza, allowing those who live there to tell their own stories.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 3d
What traces of Indigenous American history lie within English country houses? In our latest article, Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt explore how trade and tobacco shaped a famous stately home.

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Display case of dozens of white clay tobacco pipes excavated in England. Their form derives from Indigenous American pipe traditions, showing how Native technologies were adopted, industrialised, and embedded into English social life.
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History Council of NSW, Inc. @historynsw.bsky.social · 2d
Attend #hcnswmember The State Library of New South Wales Coral Thomas Lecture with Associate Professor Nancy Cushing

Nancy Cushing reflects on how humans and other animals have coexisted in Sydney throughout its urban history on Wednesday 22 October at 6pm

Book via the link below!
Coral Thomas Lecture: Nancy Cushing
2024–25 Coral Thomas Fellow Nancy Cushing reflects on how humans and other animals have coexisted in Sydney throughout its urban history.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 8d
📆EVENT Thu 30 Oct 4-6pm: The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885.
Discover the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885 and explore the archives with @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london...
The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885
Join LSE Library for a workshop on the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885.
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Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social · 3d
My podcast interview about #Heiresses with @historyextra.bsky.social is available to listen to now! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
Britain's female slaveowners: the heiresses who made fortunes from enslavement
Podcast Episode · History Extra podcast · 05/10/2025 · 34m
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 7d
Jane Goodall showed tremendous courage in charting her own course as a pioneering researcher – and working to spread hope wherever she went.
‘Only if we help shall all be saved’: Jane Goodall showed we can all be part of the solution
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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 7d
In Japan, promoting an “atypical” candidate to be prime minister, like a hard-line woman, serves the ruling party’s immediate need to project an image of change and ideological steadfastness simultaneously, argues Ming Gao.
Japan’s First Female Prime Minister Has to Be a Hard-Liner
If she wins this week’s leadership vote, Sanae Takaichi’s ultranationalist agenda will stir up the region.
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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 10d
We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 10d
In our latest blog Margaret Allen reflects on an exhibition and research project exploring the academic working lives of women in South Australia since 1970. #UniversityofAdelaide #WiseandWonderfulWomen

Find it here: www.auswhn.com.au/blog/wise-an...
Dr Carol Bacchi and Professor Alison MacKinnon – History, c. 1988, University of Adelaide, Special Collections, Archives, Series 695, Item 951. Image via Special Collections and Archives. Professor Margaret Allen
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · May 13
My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
Author wearing a rainbow dyed t-shirt takes a photo of them showing off their book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.
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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 11d
#PhD research callout!

I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.

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Ethics approval: H16788

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Seeking: NSW History Teachers. Have you taught History 7-10 in NSW? Are you interested in taking part in an online interview for a PhD study at WSU about the representation of women in the NSW history syllabuses? Please enter your details into the form below for further details. https://forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb Contacts: Kate Littlejohn, Kay Carroll
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 12d
This World Rivers Day, the #InternationalRiverFoundation invited Simon Cleary (author of Everything Is Water) and me (author of A River with a City Problem) to help celebrate river, the lifeblood of our planet.
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World Rivers Day 2025 - International River Foundation
Reflections from authors Simon Cleary and Dr Margaret Cook on Maiwar, the Brisbane River. Celebrating the river through storytelling.
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Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social · 12d
I'm excited to be speaking at the Lines in the Sand festival in Maryborough in October!

This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.

Find out more ⬇️
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 21d
"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:

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Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children | Australian Women's History Network
Dr Kate McAnelly explores how refrigerator mother theory was incorrectly used to blame mothers as being the cause of their children's autism.
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 25d
📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon!

💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history

🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
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✨Apply today!
Small Grants
The Social History Society maintains a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities by members of the Society. We give priority to activities and research that would otherwise remai…
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 17d
How can trans history facilitate knowledge and solidarity beyond the 'existence' of trans people?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo argues for trans history as a tool of political education, through the history of access to healthcare:
Imagining Trans Futures
Sam Rutherford reflects on how trans histories and historians can work towards building power in the trans community.
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d
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

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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · 16d
New post by @drkdwatson.bsky.social and Carolyn Strange: "Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents"
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Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents
By Cassie Watson and Carolyn Strange; posted 23 September 2025. The prosecution and sentencing of the Australian ‘Mushroom Murderer’ to life in prison for the poisoning of three relatives and the a…
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 17d
New research considers the true value of Meanjin, using publicly available data. The journal has trained generations of Australian writers and editors.
What is the value of Meanjin? We’ve done some calcuations – and it’s not about money
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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 16d
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 ⬇️
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Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children | Australian Women's History Network
Dr Kate McAnelly explores how refrigerator mother theory was incorrectly used to blame mothers as being the cause of their children's autism.
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 20d
This week on Wonkhe: Institutions are wary of speaking about Israel's actions in Gaza, but that silence has consequences, argues Aneeza Pervez
Gaza, higher education, and the ethics of institutional neutrality
Institutions are wary of speaking about Israel's actions in Gaza, but that silence has consequences, argues Aneeza Pervez
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 24d
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:
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YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE
Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron revive resistance in the concepts of 'history' and 'technology', through digitally reassembling the archive.
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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 17d
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...
Remembering Alison MacKinnon (1941–2025) | Australian Women's History Network
Margaret Allen remembers Emeritus Professor Alison MacKinnon, AO, FASSA (1941–2025)
www.auswhn.com.au
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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 21d
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 ⬇️
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A matter of right rather than privilege? The opening up of higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand 1877–1920 | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Tanya Fitzgerald explores the history of women's access to higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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