James Keating
@jameskeating.bsky.social
📖 Historian of suffrage, feminism and internationalism | 🖊️ Distant Sisters (MUP, 2020) | @ahsjournal.bsky.social Book Review Editor | he/him
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James Keating
@jameskeating.bsky.social
· Mar 13
I have a new open access article out in
@historyaustralia.bsky.social: '‘Give it to the Mitchell, it would be there for those that
come after us’: interwar feminists’ archival activism and
the recasting of Australian history' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@historyaustralia.bsky.social: '‘Give it to the Mitchell, it would be there for those that
come after us’: interwar feminists’ archival activism and
the recasting of Australian history' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Another reprint of 'Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook'! Pick up a copy of Alice Te Punga Somerville's bestselling Text in bookshops now.
www.bwb.co.nz/books/two-hund... #BWBTexts
www.bwb.co.nz/books/two-hund... #BWBTexts
February 11, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Another reprint of 'Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook'! Pick up a copy of Alice Te Punga Somerville's bestselling Text in bookshops now.
www.bwb.co.nz/books/two-hund... #BWBTexts
www.bwb.co.nz/books/two-hund... #BWBTexts
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Welsh artist Gwen John, Self Portrait, 1902 #womensart
February 5, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Welsh artist Gwen John, Self Portrait, 1902 #womensart
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Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Amplifying voices
New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish
cup.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr
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Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr
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Unexpectedly seeing your name on the feed amongst a stellar lineup rules.
My piece with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social in here is maybe frozen in 2021 in some ways but I will forever stand by the underlying principle that history as a discipline has a real problem with embodiment it won't face up to.
My piece with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social in here is maybe frozen in 2021 in some ways but I will forever stand by the underlying principle that history as a discipline has a real problem with embodiment it won't face up to.
Grab a ☕ and revisit a History Australia Collection!
History in practice: Trove Special Section.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...
Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.
History in practice: Trove Special Section.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...
Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.
February 3, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Unexpectedly seeing your name on the feed amongst a stellar lineup rules.
My piece with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social in here is maybe frozen in 2021 in some ways but I will forever stand by the underlying principle that history as a discipline has a real problem with embodiment it won't face up to.
My piece with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social in here is maybe frozen in 2021 in some ways but I will forever stand by the underlying principle that history as a discipline has a real problem with embodiment it won't face up to.
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Grab a ☕ and revisit a History Australia Collection!
History in practice: Trove Special Section.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...
Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.
History in practice: Trove Special Section.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...
Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.
February 3, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Grab a ☕ and revisit a History Australia Collection!
History in practice: Trove Special Section.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...
Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.
History in practice: Trove Special Section.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...
Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.
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I have an essay in it on the political pen of the socialist intellectual Beatrice Webb, which explores how elite women used writing to assert expertise - purposefully, artfully, and never without cost.
February 2, 2026 at 9:14 AM
I have an essay in it on the political pen of the socialist intellectual Beatrice Webb, which explores how elite women used writing to assert expertise - purposefully, artfully, and never without cost.
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The conflation of political activism with marches and rallies is problematic flattening history into simple progress narratives and oversimplifying the work of scholars. This limits the vision of modern-day organizers. Let's complicate our understanding of social movement history.🧵
#sschat 🗃️
#sschat 🗃️
February 1, 2026 at 4:53 PM
The conflation of political activism with marches and rallies is problematic flattening history into simple progress narratives and oversimplifying the work of scholars. This limits the vision of modern-day organizers. Let's complicate our understanding of social movement history.🧵
#sschat 🗃️
#sschat 🗃️
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25/7/1988, The Go-Betweens📸Steve Pyke
January 21, 2026 at 6:35 PM
25/7/1988, The Go-Betweens📸Steve Pyke
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Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women.
I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans.
I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans.
I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Reconsidering Violence Against Women through the History of a Refuge for Trans Women
Abstract. Both right-wing forces and gender-critical feminists currently frame cis and trans women’s needs as fundamentally different and conflicting. Viol
academic.oup.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women.
I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans.
I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans.
I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
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centenary of Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social
first Librarian, Vera Douie. Readers sent letters for items to be posted and researched. Vera made a copy & filed it
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
@lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
first Librarian, Vera Douie. Readers sent letters for items to be posted and researched. Vera made a copy & filed it
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
@lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 8:46 AM
centenary of Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social
first Librarian, Vera Douie. Readers sent letters for items to be posted and researched. Vera made a copy & filed it
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
@lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
first Librarian, Vera Douie. Readers sent letters for items to be posted and researched. Vera made a copy & filed it
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
@lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
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I've been in organisations where older members were incredibly annoyed at my cohort's lack of attendance on week nights etc. and it took me a while to work out men in their cohort were allowed, and expected, to just abandon spouses and children at home
Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more.
via The Economist
via The Economist
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 AM
I've been in organisations where older members were incredibly annoyed at my cohort's lack of attendance on week nights etc. and it took me a while to work out men in their cohort were allowed, and expected, to just abandon spouses and children at home
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It's out! This new article by me and my wonderful collaborator Charlotte Ann Legg looks at race, labour and affinities of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia around the time of the White Australia policy. Part of our special issue on Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific🗃️
January 13, 2026 at 1:24 AM
It's out! This new article by me and my wonderful collaborator Charlotte Ann Legg looks at race, labour and affinities of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia around the time of the White Australia policy. Part of our special issue on Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific🗃️
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Landmark History! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 5, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Landmark History! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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Publication day! My article on how to read an 18C newspapers, on digital remediation, and on the unfree press out in the world. Thanks @andy-schocket.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social & M. Karrs for making it all possible. @universitypress.cambridge.org
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December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Publication day! My article on how to read an 18C newspapers, on digital remediation, and on the unfree press out in the world. Thanks @andy-schocket.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social & M. Karrs for making it all possible. @universitypress.cambridge.org
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What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year?
Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
A People's Congress
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women’s Year in East Berlin?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year?
Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
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‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library
Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library - Research Professional News
Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library
Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
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If you're interested in learning more about the existence and condition of precarious oral history collections in Victoria, check out our newly released Report & Online Database!
precariousoralhistories.com/project-outp...
precariousoralhistories.com/project-outp...
December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you're interested in learning more about the existence and condition of precarious oral history collections in Victoria, check out our newly released Report & Online Database!
precariousoralhistories.com/project-outp...
precariousoralhistories.com/project-outp...
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Read an extract from Charlotte Macdonald's new book, 'Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire', in the ODT!
Pick up a copy of 'Garrison World' today from your local bookshop or through the BWB website.
www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/maga...
Pick up a copy of 'Garrison World' today from your local bookshop or through the BWB website.
www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/maga...
Boots on the ground
Dunedin grew rapidly during the early 1860s. This watercolour was painted at this time by Walter Scarlett Hatton and shows substantial buildings...
www.odt.co.nz
December 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Read an extract from Charlotte Macdonald's new book, 'Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire', in the ODT!
Pick up a copy of 'Garrison World' today from your local bookshop or through the BWB website.
www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/maga...
Pick up a copy of 'Garrison World' today from your local bookshop or through the BWB website.
www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/maga...
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It is exciting to announce that my first book has just been published with Palgrave!
Pregnant Women’s Sexuality explores ideas and practices about pregnant women’s sex in early modern England and European medicine ✨
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#history #histofsex
Pregnant Women’s Sexuality explores ideas and practices about pregnant women’s sex in early modern England and European medicine ✨
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#history #histofsex
Pregnant Women’s Sexuality in Early Modern England
This book provides the first history of pregnant women’s sexuality in England from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.
link.springer.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It is exciting to announce that my first book has just been published with Palgrave!
Pregnant Women’s Sexuality explores ideas and practices about pregnant women’s sex in early modern England and European medicine ✨
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#history #histofsex
Pregnant Women’s Sexuality explores ideas and practices about pregnant women’s sex in early modern England and European medicine ✨
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#history #histofsex
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“The character of *the reader* is a strange and curious one. While being entirely individual and with his or her own reactions, the reader is so intimately linked with the writer that the truth is that the reader *is* the writer.”
— Clarice Lispector (Feb. 1968)
— Clarice Lispector (Feb. 1968)
April 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“The character of *the reader* is a strange and curious one. While being entirely individual and with his or her own reactions, the reader is so intimately linked with the writer that the truth is that the reader *is* the writer.”
— Clarice Lispector (Feb. 1968)
— Clarice Lispector (Feb. 1968)
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"Now they’re hacking away at the actual librarians? Shame on them. They bring disgrace on the name of our city.”
Helen Garner says State Library of Victoria turned into ‘party central’, with planned job cuts to ‘bring disgrace’ on Melbourne
Acclaimed author ‘sick’ about 171-year-old institution’s proposed restructure as hundreds of writers sign open letter in protest
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Now they’re hacking away at the actual librarians? Shame on them. They bring disgrace on the name of our city.”
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Great stuff from Judy Brett.
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Great stuff from Judy Brett.
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Melbourne's State Library of Victoria – the third most popular library in the world! – is being threatened with cuts to staff and facilities. Add your name to the petition to save jobs and resources www.change.org/p/save-the-s...
Sign the Petition
Save the State Library of Victoria!
www.change.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Melbourne's State Library of Victoria – the third most popular library in the world! – is being threatened with cuts to staff and facilities. Add your name to the petition to save jobs and resources www.change.org/p/save-the-s...