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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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NEW at #VIDAblog!

Eli Branagh and Taylah Evans discuss their experience hosting ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’, a one-day symposium held in response to the recently published Personal Politics: The Remaking of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2024).

Find out more here ⬇️
Reflection: ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’ Symposium | Australian Women's History Network
Eli Branagh and Tahlya Evans reflect on their experience hosting the ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’ symposium.
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humanitiesau.bsky.social
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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awgsa.bsky.social
LAST DAY TO REGISTER: "FORMING TRANS COLLECTIVES NOW" 💥

Please send your expressions of interest (who are? why would you like to join?) to [email protected] by November 25th.
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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eleaud.bsky.social
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.
This text is taken from the Jan-June 2026 UNSW Press catalogue (too much to fit in this box) - https://unsw.press/catalogues/
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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srishti-g.bsky.social
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...
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Australia talks a big game on innovation – but keeps cutting the institutions that make it possible. Why we need to reverse course, fast. 🧪📉 #SciencePolicy #CSIRO #HigherEd #PublicSchools #AustralianPolitics #STEM #Innovation #EducationFunding #Auspol
Innovation talk, austerity walk: Australia’s failing science policy
Despite constant rhetoric about innovation, Australia is steadily dismantling its scientific capacity. Public schools, universities and the CSIRO are all under pressure – the result of decades of market-driven policy-making that prioritises short-term cost-cutting over long-term national capability.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
auswhn.bsky.social
NEW at #VIDAblog!

Andrea Gaynor expands on the themes of her keynote at the 2025 @austhistassoc.bsky.social conference, discussing gender and regenerative histories of landcare in Australia.

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Gender and regenerative histories of landcare in Australia | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Andrea Gaynor expands on the themes of her keynote at the 2025 Australian Historical Association Conference on gender and environmental history.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️

Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments

Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026

niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...

#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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karenannelonsdale.bsky.social
Delighted to share an article that I co-wrote with @dranastevenson.bsky.social, that was published this week in the 'Journal of Australian Studies'. The article highlights the achievements of five pioneering Australian women flautists.

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Making an Entrance on a Man’s Stage: Pioneer Women Flautists in Australia
Flute playing was primarily a male domain during the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. Whereas the piano and singing were traditionally considered acceptable musical pursuits ...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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acrsn.bsky.social
#CFP online seminar series: Strong Women of the Ancient Mediterranean World and their Reception - September-December 2026 - Organisers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey), Martina Treu (Milan) sponsored by EuGeStA Network, AWAWS, The Imagines Project - Due by Jan 6
This online series of meetings brings together scholars and practitioners from both hemispheres to discuss the stories of ancient historical and fictional women who inspire them and their work. We invite speakers to problematise the concept of what a 'strong' woman means to them, and how our ideas about the position and roles of women, gender and female agency have evolved over time. In turn this affects how we receive, interact with and adapt these ancient female figures and their stories. Each speaker will reflect on their chosen ancient woman/women or group, as a launchpad for a wider examination of the impact of ancient women in recent scholarship and/or in a variety of modern media (including but not limited to the stage, screen and the visual arts). Speakers can choose to focus on the ancient material but must engage with recent scholarly debates on questions of gender, and/or diversity. Practitioners are particularly welcome to present their creative receptions of these ancient female figures, partnering up with a scholar or by themselves with a scholar as a respondent to foster dialogue and the exchange of ideas. We welcome proposals from interested scholars, postgraduates and practitioners (a title and a short abstract of 200-300 words) by 6th of January. Collaborations between researchers and between scholars and practitioners are most welcome. Since our goal is to bring together people from both hemispheres, we aim to preserve a balance in terms of numbers between northern and southern speakers. We envisage a seminar series of between 10 and 12 speakers, with around 2 speakers, plus a chair/respondent per session. Dates and times to be decided after the selection of abstracts has been completed.
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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We’re back!
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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amigrationhn.bsky.social
New blog post by Alexa Ridgeway
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Beyond Bonegilla: A Call to Remember Australia’s Former Migrant Camps | Australian Policy and History Network
Australia is well practiced in commemorating military history. Anzac Day and Remembrance Day both act as rituals of national memorialisation for the many Australians who have served in wars and peacekeeping missions, and the Australian War Memorial’s “places of pride” online national register provides a map of all the war memorials across Australia. Thousands of […]
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November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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aunz.theconversation.com
With a bold reform agenda and occasional administrative chaos, Whitlam’s three-year government continues to have a profound effect on Australian life.

👉 theconversation.com/extraor...
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
auswhn.bsky.social
On the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal, revisit the career and achievements of Elizabeth Reid, the world’s first advisor on women’s affairs advisor to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, at #VIDAblog.

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Book cover: Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the Revolution, edited by Michelle Arrow (NewSouth Publishing, 2023).
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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ausjpolsci.bsky.social
NEW SUBMISSION CATEGORY ADDED!
AJPS invites Reform Notes from practitioners and/or academics that set out proposed innovations about (or relevant to) aspects of Australian politics practice - e.g. proposals for or modifications to existing political institutions, procedures, laws and practices 1/4
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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🎧LISTEN: Michelle Grattan is one of the few remaining working journalists who witnesses The Dismissal first hand. She shares her memories of that tumultuous day.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Remembering the day Gough Whitlam lost his job
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November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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womenshistnet.bsky.social
New on the blog! Esther Freeman from @share-uk.bsky.social explores the different ways women have used food throughout history, and how we can reframe it as a powerful political tool #womenshistory

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Kitchen Resistance: how women used food to fight back – Esther Freeman
I’d been in the Women’s Library at LSE for hours, going through oral history transcripts in the Women Against Pit Closures collection. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I felt close to tears. The…
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November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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historyworkshop.org.uk
OTD in 1928, the Carreras Cigarette Factory opened in London. Built for speed and precision, it subjected workers to strict fines and constant oversight.

From the archives, Sally Alexander explores Thomas Garland's groundbreaking work on the mental health of factory girls:
Dr Thomas Garland and the Dream Life of Factory Girls
A long-forgotten medical thesis from 1938 uncovers the physical and psychic distress of London factory girls.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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aunz.theconversation.com
Tia Billinger’s viral stunt shows us the price women pay for power and influence.
Sex with 1,000 men in 12 hours: why Bonnie Blue is neither a feminist nor a monster
theconversation.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 AM
auswhn.bsky.social
NEW at #VIDAblog!

Eli Branagh and Taylah Evans discuss their experience hosting ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’, a one-day symposium held in response to the recently published Personal Politics: The Remaking of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2024).

Find out more here ⬇️
Reflection: ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’ Symposium | Australian Women's History Network
Eli Branagh and Tahlya Evans reflect on their experience hosting the ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’ symposium.
www.auswhn.com.au
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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katemanlik.bsky.social
Always thrilled to be able to talk about AIDS activism in the Australian lesbian press.
Collage of AIDS-related magazine titles from Lesbians on the Loose.
October 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
auswhn.bsky.social
NEW at #VIDAblog!

@ahartman.bsky.social explores the impressions that playing video games gives us about significant women historical figures, asking: What impact does this have on informal public education about women's history? 🎮

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What do video games teach us about women’s history? | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Abbie Hartman explores the impression of women's history given through video games and its impact on informal education.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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crikey.com.au
The Times Higher Education global universities rankings have again swept through the marketing departments of Australia's unis, putting a thin lacquer over an industry plagued by endemic wage theft and poor student satisfaction outcomes.
Australia's universities may win in global rankings, but they're failing teachers and students
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October 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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johnmenadue.com
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.
johnmenadue.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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aunz.theconversation.com
📚 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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October 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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historyworkshop.org.uk
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.
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM