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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d

"Archives hold many examples of the centrality of paperwork for marginalised groups when rights are unstable or out of reach. They show how migrants use paperwork to imagine rights - to see a right to protection before one exists."

Roundtable reflections on the radical history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · 13d

Happy 6 years at UTAS to me!

(And thank you to the colleague who saw that this job and I were suited)

Screenshot of a text message that says, ‘Dear Kate, I think you’d be a fantastic applicant for this UTAS job’, followed by a link to the position of lecturer/senior lecturer in Humanities at the University of Tasmania

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · 15d

Lots of articles focusing on particular aspects of the White Australia Policy - in terms of who was welcomed and who was excluded

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · 15d

Depends what aspect you’re looking at, but maybe Tavan’s Long Slow Death of White Australia (2005), or Palfreeman’s Administration of the White Australia Policy (1967)

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · 16d

Happy that my Tim is in his happy place for a bit - playing with cultural heritage data and working with some nice people!

Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

The secret is out! I'm very excited to be the SLV LAB's latest Creative Technologist-in-Residence! I'm going to be spending the next few months playing around with place-based collections at the State Library of Victoria: https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/residencies-opportunities

Residencies & Opportunities | SLV LAB

SLV LAB, invites artists, designers, technologists and researchers to push the boundaries of cultural data and emerging technologies. \

lab.slv.vic.gov.au

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

The secret is out! I'm very excited to be the SLV LAB's latest Creative Technologist-in-Residence! I'm going to be spending the next few months playing around with place-based collections at the State Library of Victoria: https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/residencies-opportunities

Residencies & Opportunities | SLV LAB

SLV LAB, invites artists, designers, technologists and researchers to push the boundaries of cultural data and emerging technologies. \

lab.slv.vic.gov.au

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · 22d

Lovely write-up about the new ‘Shared Connections: Cantonese Stories in Australia’ exhibition developed by Sophie Couchman for the Australian Consulate-General in Guangzhou!

(I also had a small hand in the exhibition, and it features my daughter’s story 😊)

mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzIy...

Exhibition Bridges Two Centuries of Cantonese-Australian Stories

Migration, memory, and cultural legacy

mp.weixin.qq.com

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · 27d

Today I took custody of a box of historical materials that were purchased in a Launceston antique shop many years ago – I suspect they came out of the old Sun Hung Ack store. Among the treasures are a collection relating to the Tasmanian See Yip Club (which I knew existed but nothing more!)

A selection of historical documents relating to the Tasmanian Chinese See Yip Social Club, including blank membership cards, rule book and account book

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · 29d

That’s strange, archive.is links remove the paywall. You could try saving it there yourself?

archive.is

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · 29d

archive.is/TLqe4

archive.is

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today was my last day of sick leave – on Monday I return to work (0.4FTE) after 4 months off. It was a happy day of errands, lunching with a munchkin and her mum, and chatting with my teenager. I don’t know how my return to work will go, but I’m hopeful that this time I can make it work🤞. #longCOVID

Photo of Kate, a middle aged woman with curly hair and glasses, and a baby sitting at a table in a cafe in Moonah. The baby’s face has been covered with an emoji sticker of a baby’s head.

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · Aug 30

Given how Deloitte and other management consultant firms have inveigled themselves into university governance in Australia and internationally … this stinks

UTAS VC to take up board appointment at accounting giant
University of Tasmania boss Rufus Black will juggle a lucrative Deloitte board position with his leadership of the uni as it grapples with a $47m loss.

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Aug 30

I spent the afternoon representing UTAS Family History at Convict Connections at the Cascades Female Factory, looking out these windows over the walls of the Female Factory to a snowy kunanyi. (It’s on again tomorrow if you want help with convict ancestors!)

femalefactory.org.au/event/convic...

View out of a row of windows looking over the sandstone wall of the Female Factory and trees towards kunanyi Mt Wellington.

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Aug 27

I hear you! Also important to recognise that PEM isn’t just caused by physical exertion - for me, cognitive work and social interaction (including meetings, being in busy places) is exhausting.

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Everyday Heritage @everydayheritage.bsky.social · Aug 26

Everyday Heritage team member Dr Imogen Wegman
@imoweg.bsky.social takes a walk down Elizabeth St in central Hobart with Joel Rheinberger, ABC Hobart, and tells a few forgotten stories of characters who once lived in this town. Listen to the audio recording here everydayheritage.au/news/voxtrot...

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Aug 26

Chinese

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Aug 25

‘People could often meet basic needs, but their ability to contribute to their homes, workplaces and communities was limited. Quality of life was also badly affected.‘

#longCOVID

theconversation.com/long-covid-i...

Long COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’s

Long COVID isn’t just a bunch of lingering symptoms. A new study shows it can stop peoole doing what they want to do, and need to do.

theconversation.com

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21

Slides from the presentation are available here: https://data.katebagnall.com/files/original/2db20b71bdf63b347d08cc14fbcf5b0f4e9476f0.pdf They include links to some of the digital things I've built for the project such as the fully-searchable version of the Tasmanian Post Office Directories from […]

Original post on hcommons.social

hcommons.social

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Aug 21

Such a joy to be working with family historians, community members and our wonderful project team to tell more Chinese Tasmanian histories. Recording to share will come, I hope!

Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21

At the State Library of Tasmania to hear @baibi, Imogen Wegman & Annaliese Claydon talk about our part of the Everyday Heritage project, exploring Chinese Tasmanian heritage.

Photo of the front of the Allport Library showing a lecture and screen. The screen is displaying slides for the talk "In plain sight: Everyday Chinese Tasmanian Heritage.

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · Aug 17

Former pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui who is wanted by the Chinese city has been granted asylum in Australia, he said in a social media post, calling on Canberra to do more for those who remain jailed. In full: buff.ly/VsW2qac

Australia grants asylum to 'wanted' Hong Kong democrat Ted Hui | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Former pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui who is wanted by the Chinese city has been granted asylum in Australia, he said in a social media post, calling on Canberra to do more for those who remain...

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Aug 5

I have known this move since before I came to UTAS and to Hobart, but back then I imagined myself riding my bike to work in town, shopping and eating out at lunchtime, and so on. Sigh.

Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Aug 5

We will soon move to a newly renovated building in town, but it means a desk in an open plan office, not an office with a door and window, and a commute without parking. I fear it effectively means I will rarely be able to work on campus. Another thing lost to this stupid illness. #longCOVID

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Aug 5

We will soon move to a newly renovated building in town, but it means a desk in an open plan office, not an office with a door and window, and a commute without parking. I fear it effectively means I will rarely be able to work on campus. Another thing lost to this stupid illness. #longCOVID

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Aug 5

Yep, and I also don’t see mistakes I make (which frustrates me no end as I am pretty much the most pedantic person in the world).

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Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social · Jul 28

“Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing” theconversation.com/top-australi...

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing

Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.

theconversation.com

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wrote a little piece on the cuts at MCH and the wider war on history in NZ.

buttondown.com/unsettling/a...

The War on History

News that the Ministry for Culture and Heritage is to press ahead with sweeping cuts that will abolish the jobs of most of its historians represents yet...

buttondown.com

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