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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · 1d

Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

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UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project

The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run. Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...

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Slow Historian (Dr Simon Sleight) @slowhistorian.bsky.social · 23h

*Call for papers!* The Children’s History Society, Fifth Biennial Conference
'Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth '
To be held at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026.
Details here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

www.histchild.org

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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks so much, Jade!

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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 5d

And in very fine company next to Fathering! Thanks so much for sharing! 😊

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Alvine Mulligan @alvine-m.bsky.social · 5d

Spotted in the wild at the State Library of NSW bookshop - congrats Emily @as-ruby.bsky.social

#books #historyofchildhood #history #huzzah

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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 14d

No need to apologise, Kristen! So glad you’ve got your hands on a copy — hope you enjoy it!

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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 14d

So delighted to see 'Playtime' reviewed by Marian Quartly alongside 'Fathering' and its stellar collective of authors!

frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 14d

'Gallagher writes with an elegant assurance.' inside.org.au/authors-of-t...

Authors of their own lives? • Marian Quartly

How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia

inside.org.au

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 16d

Flinders University has abolished the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Another destructive restructure is about to happen.

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frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 18d

Join us at 6pm Tuesday 23 September at UTS in Sydney for this one! Places still available.
events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...

A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment

We explore the outcomes of the 2025 Australian federal election and consider whether it signals a fundamental rupture or realignment in the political landscape

events.humanitix.com

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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks so much for sharing, Anisa. Hope we can celebrate sometime soon in Melbourne!

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Anisa Puri @anisapuri.bsky.social · 21d

Canberra friends, don't miss this opportunity to celebrate the launch of brilliant childhood historian Emily Gallagher's new book!

Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 23d

In Canberra next week? Come along and celebrate the launch of Playtime 🧸

Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!

🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog

Book Launch of Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher

Book Launch of Playtime : A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher

events.humanitix.com

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Australian Academy of the Humanities @humanitiesau.bsky.social · 22d

In her new book, Dr Emily Gallagher, a historian at the ANU, charts the history of childhood play and imagination in pre-war Australia — bringing age to the centre of historical analysis as a critical category alongside class, gender and ethnicity.

Read 👉 humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

Worlds of power & impossibility — taking children’s history seriously – Australian Academy of the Humanities

Wattle fairies, talking magpies, excursions to the South Pole, unbreakable dolls, flesh-eating monsters, toddler kings, and underground playgrounds. Is there anywhere the childhood imagination cannot ...

humanities.org.au

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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 23d

In Canberra next week? Come along and celebrate the launch of Playtime 🧸

Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!

🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog

Book Launch of Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher

Book Launch of Playtime : A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher

events.humanitix.com

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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 23d

In Canberra next week? Come along and celebrate the launch of Playtime 🧸

Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!

🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog

Book Launch of Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher

Book Launch of Playtime : A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher

events.humanitix.com

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 27d

For a project I am working on - how do you think John Howard fundamentally changed Australia - what did he do that we are still feeling the effects of? (Housing, immigration debates, loss of workers rights, black arm band of history, jingoism etc)

Really interested in your takes.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · Sep 4

Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure.

Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

www.crikey.com.au

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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · Aug 26

Please sign and share this petition for ANU Council to:

🛑Stop forced redundancies

🛑Stop proposed school/center closures and amalgamations

🛑Sack the Chancellor and VC

It’s open not only to students and staff but also to all members of the broader ANU community.

nteu.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...

Petition to ANU Council

In support of our petition, we observe that:  • ANU Council has the entire control and management of the University and is required to act in all matters concerning the ANU in the way it thinks w...

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Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas) @phavictas.bsky.social · Aug 24

ANU School of History invites applications for a PhD scholarship to research the Communist Party of Australia, 1970-91. The project continues the work of the late Prof Stuart Macintyre and is valued at AU$100,000 over a four year period.

programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/9520...

#phavictas

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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social · Aug 22

My book is available for preorder @melvillehouse.bsky.social!

It’s about The Hite Report—the 50M-copy feminist sexology bestseller—its wild, visionary author Shere Hite and culture wars then and now. Out April '26!

mhpbooks.com/books/the-bo...

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · Aug 21

ANU and the Search Foundation are offering a PhD with $100,000 top up to complete the final (1970-91) volume of the history of the Communist Party of Australia. 👇

Calling for Applicants to the Australian National University-SEARCH Foundation PhD Scholarship | School of History

history.cass.anu.edu.au

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Maureen Gallagher @maureenogallagher.bsky.social · Aug 20

I am one of the staff members impacted by this. I truly thought when I first read the email that it might mean my job is safe because I have not yet been made redundant, but, no, I am still facing the axe. It was a maliciously cruel email to send.

Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · Aug 20

Tough time for many at ANU. At around midday yesterday staff received a university-wide email. The language was ambiguous and could be read to say all forced redundancies would stop. I received many messages from people being forced out. Were they now safe?