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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I am heavily invested in handwriting & historical documents. Historians need to weigh carefully whether time spent transcribing documents is “wasted,” or whether it actually helps thought processes & skills. This is not to say these tools should not be used.
Just consider the cost of “time saved.”
Just consider the cost of “time saved.”
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I am heavily invested in handwriting & historical documents. Historians need to weigh carefully whether time spent transcribing documents is “wasted,” or whether it actually helps thought processes & skills. This is not to say these tools should not be used.
Just consider the cost of “time saved.”
Just consider the cost of “time saved.”
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this Mushroom Diaries book is honestly make me think a little differently of three writers i have always really appreciated
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
this Mushroom Diaries book is honestly make me think a little differently of three writers i have always really appreciated
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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...
Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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...
Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...
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Please read this & help save the State Library of Victoria, entering its 'now fully trashed' era. I didn't go to uni - for me the Library was higher education in later life, research for my job, a revelation about what ordinary people could have access to. It changed my life. Not just a building.
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Please read this & help save the State Library of Victoria, entering its 'now fully trashed' era. I didn't go to uni - for me the Library was higher education in later life, research for my job, a revelation about what ordinary people could have access to. It changed my life. Not just a building.
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The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
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I'm against pardoning turkeys because it implies that we are eating them as a punishment for their crimes instead of our own
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I'm against pardoning turkeys because it implies that we are eating them as a punishment for their crimes instead of our own
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#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
State Library proposes major cuts to staff and services
The library plans halve the number of reference librarians it employs and reduce the number of computers available for public use in a move that has outraged staff.
www.theage.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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Useful thing for Aussie people juggling jobs: the Fair Work Ombudsman has an app called Record My Hours which doesn't store your data (unlike all the other freelancer type apps/programs out there) and lets you track actual hours worked in a way that is lowkey and doesn't add too much cognitive load.
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Useful thing for Aussie people juggling jobs: the Fair Work Ombudsman has an app called Record My Hours which doesn't store your data (unlike all the other freelancer type apps/programs out there) and lets you track actual hours worked in a way that is lowkey and doesn't add too much cognitive load.
Catriona Menzies-Pike on ‘critical provincialism’: ‘I’d advocate for a set of reading practices that stay close to the contours of place and culture, that let themselves be informed by topography and history’. Yes!
I wrote a long piece for the SRB on Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional, international literary success, and the heightened tension between universalising and provincial readings when Australian novels go global.
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/the-...
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/the-...
The Monastery and the Monaro | Sydney Review of Books
How do Australian writers find an overseas readership? Reviewing the highly acclaimed Stone Yard Devotional, Catriona Menzies-Pike surveys the critical oversights and abstractions that allow stories f...
sydneyreviewofbooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Catriona Menzies-Pike on ‘critical provincialism’: ‘I’d advocate for a set of reading practices that stay close to the contours of place and culture, that let themselves be informed by topography and history’. Yes!
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Very excited to see my article on ghosts in early modern London published with Urban History! And it's open access! cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ghosts and hidden geographies: the affective resonances of space in early modern London | Urban History | Cambridge Core
Ghosts and hidden geographies: the affective resonances of space in early modern London
cambridge.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Very excited to see my article on ghosts in early modern London published with Urban History! And it's open access! cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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.
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Congratulations to Mary Blight (Curtin), runner up of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the AHA conference. Read the judges’ citation below.
Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.
Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Congratulations to Mary Blight (Curtin), runner up of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the AHA conference. Read the judges’ citation below.
Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.
Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.
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Congratulations to Zoe Smith (ANU), winner of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the annual AHA conference @austhistassoc.bsky.social Thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social for supporting the prize. Read the judges’ citation below
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Congratulations to Zoe Smith (ANU), winner of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the annual AHA conference @austhistassoc.bsky.social Thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social for supporting the prize. Read the judges’ citation below
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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...
Research Assistant in Digital Humanities
Role type: Full Time; Fixed term until February 2027 Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Department: School of Computing and Information Systems Salary: Level A - $87,226 - $118...
unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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...
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Check out @racheljcollett.bsky.social's fantastic article on the Women's Liberation Movement in Merseyside, and radical regionalism, in the latest issue of Tribune - out today!
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Check out @racheljcollett.bsky.social's fantastic article on the Women's Liberation Movement in Merseyside, and radical regionalism, in the latest issue of Tribune - out today!
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Brancepeth (est. 1856, Wainuioru)
A name to conjure with in NZ library history. The late Lydia Wevers wrote a wonderful book about the sheep station library, now preserved at Victoria University of Wellington.
A name to conjure with in NZ library history. The late Lydia Wevers wrote a wonderful book about the sheep station library, now preserved at Victoria University of Wellington.
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Brancepeth (est. 1856, Wainuioru)
A name to conjure with in NZ library history. The late Lydia Wevers wrote a wonderful book about the sheep station library, now preserved at Victoria University of Wellington.
A name to conjure with in NZ library history. The late Lydia Wevers wrote a wonderful book about the sheep station library, now preserved at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Charlotte Macdonald's 'Garrison World' reveals how empire shaped lives in 19th-century Aotearoa and beyond.
Out now in bookshops and on the BWB website.
www.bwb.co.nz/books/garrison...
#NZHistory #GarrisonWorld
Out now in bookshops and on the BWB website.
www.bwb.co.nz/books/garrison...
#NZHistory #GarrisonWorld
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Charlotte Macdonald's 'Garrison World' reveals how empire shaped lives in 19th-century Aotearoa and beyond.
Out now in bookshops and on the BWB website.
www.bwb.co.nz/books/garrison...
#NZHistory #GarrisonWorld
Out now in bookshops and on the BWB website.
www.bwb.co.nz/books/garrison...
#NZHistory #GarrisonWorld
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Nice to see this forum on Ian Tyrrell's work in AJAH.
It was a privilege to offer thoughts about an approach to the past that has shaped my own and to learn from other fantastic scholars' responses to Ian's writing on women, temperance, and transnational activism: www.jstor.org/stable/48844....
It was a privilege to offer thoughts about an approach to the past that has shaped my own and to learn from other fantastic scholars' responses to Ian's writing on women, temperance, and transnational activism: www.jstor.org/stable/48844....
On Tyrrell and the Transnational Worlds of Women’s Reform on JSTOR
Ruth A. Morgan, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, James Keating, Sarah Paddle, Yves Rees, On Tyrrell and the Transnational Worlds of Women’s Reform, Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1, Spe...
www.jstor.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Nice to see this forum on Ian Tyrrell's work in AJAH.
It was a privilege to offer thoughts about an approach to the past that has shaped my own and to learn from other fantastic scholars' responses to Ian's writing on women, temperance, and transnational activism: www.jstor.org/stable/48844....
It was a privilege to offer thoughts about an approach to the past that has shaped my own and to learn from other fantastic scholars' responses to Ian's writing on women, temperance, and transnational activism: www.jstor.org/stable/48844....
Nice to see this forum on Ian Tyrrell's work in AJAH.
It was a privilege to offer thoughts about an approach to the past that has shaped my own and to learn from other fantastic scholars' responses to Ian's writing on women, temperance, and transnational activism: www.jstor.org/stable/48844....
It was a privilege to offer thoughts about an approach to the past that has shaped my own and to learn from other fantastic scholars' responses to Ian's writing on women, temperance, and transnational activism: www.jstor.org/stable/48844....
On Tyrrell and the Transnational Worlds of Women’s Reform on JSTOR
Ruth A. Morgan, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, James Keating, Sarah Paddle, Yves Rees, On Tyrrell and the Transnational Worlds of Women’s Reform, Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1, Spe...
www.jstor.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Nice to see this forum on Ian Tyrrell's work in AJAH.
It was a privilege to offer thoughts about an approach to the past that has shaped my own and to learn from other fantastic scholars' responses to Ian's writing on women, temperance, and transnational activism: www.jstor.org/stable/48844....
It was a privilege to offer thoughts about an approach to the past that has shaped my own and to learn from other fantastic scholars' responses to Ian's writing on women, temperance, and transnational activism: www.jstor.org/stable/48844....
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Historian Charlotte Macdonald joins Kathryn Ryan on RNZ Nine to Noon to discuss her major new history, 'Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire'.
Listen here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/progr...
📘 Pick up your copy at a local bookshop today!
Listen here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/progr...
📘 Pick up your copy at a local bookshop today!
Garrison World: historian Charlotte Macdonald
The story of the Redcoats, as they were known, has been told in a new book Garrison World by Victoria University history professor Charlotte Macdonald.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Historian Charlotte Macdonald joins Kathryn Ryan on RNZ Nine to Noon to discuss her major new history, 'Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire'.
Listen here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/progr...
📘 Pick up your copy at a local bookshop today!
Listen here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/progr...
📘 Pick up your copy at a local bookshop today!
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And delighted now to share this new research article by Charlotte Legg and me that explores settler colonial identities, shared affinities, racial politics and transimperial forms of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia in the early 20th century. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
And delighted now to share this new research article by Charlotte Legg and me that explores settler colonial identities, shared affinities, racial politics and transimperial forms of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia in the early 20th century. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sie hat so viel Wichtiges geleistet. Möge sie nun in Frieden ruhen. Gisela Bock, 1942-2025.
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Sie hat so viel Wichtiges geleistet. Möge sie nun in Frieden ruhen. Gisela Bock, 1942-2025.
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Some of you may be interested in this symposium on 'truth-telling' (in its many guises) being held at the University of Melbourne this week. Students and mob can attend for free, Unimelb staff get a 20% discount, and unwaged scholars get a 75% discount. I will be there for some of Friday's sessions!
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Some of you may be interested in this symposium on 'truth-telling' (in its many guises) being held at the University of Melbourne this week. Students and mob can attend for free, Unimelb staff get a 20% discount, and unwaged scholars get a 75% discount. I will be there for some of Friday's sessions!
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Thrilled to see this introduction by me and Charlotte Ann Legg to our special issue on "Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific" is now out and in open access. The rest of our special issue – with a fantastic array of articles – will be out soon! @journalpacifichist.bsky.social
Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain, and the Pacific
This special issue explores the connected histories of France, Britain, and the Pacific in the 19th and early 20th centuries at the level of states, colonial administrations, people, practices, and...
www.tandfonline.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Thrilled to see this introduction by me and Charlotte Ann Legg to our special issue on "Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific" is now out and in open access. The rest of our special issue – with a fantastic array of articles – will be out soon! @journalpacifichist.bsky.social
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My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...