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PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖

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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · Nov 11

I am fortunate to have recently published my first journal article entitled Rape, law and stories of trauma: representations of sexual violence in The Australian Women’s Weekly, 1970–82 with the wonderful team at History Australia.

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Rape, law and stories of trauma: representations of sexual violence in The Australian Women’s Weekly, 1970–82

The 1970s ushered in a period of significant feminist activism, public debate and judicial reform on issues of rape and child sexual abuse. In this article, I examine how The Australian Women’s Wee...

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 19h

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 22h

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 1d

Come & hear me talk! Discussing how historians deviate from well-trodden paths of the past. How do they reveal larger stories that've been ignored? And how do historians correct the record? State Library NSW, Wed 26 Nov, 6pm. Free event but bookings essential.
www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/fello...

Fellows’ Forum: Telling histories already told

Hear from three of the Library’s Fellows about their approach to researching and telling histories that many people assume they’ve already heard.

www.sl.nsw.gov.au

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 23h

Oh the irony considering the impact of some of Newscorp’s journalism 😅

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 6d

📆EVENT Thu 30 Oct 4-6pm: The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885.
Discover the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885 and explore the archives with @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london...

The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885

Join LSE Library for a workshop on the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 6d

Part time research assistant position in Melbourne working with the incomparable Jordy Silverstein on statelessness, migration, and intergenerational memory! unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

Research Associate

Role type: Part-Time (0.2 FTE) Fixed-Term for 3 years Faculty: Melbourne Law School Salary: Level A $85,555.00 - $116,094.00 p.a. plus 17% super  Provide vital research support to an ARC Future Fellow...

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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you ☺️ It was wonderful to hear your paper & about your research with Lena!

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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 8d

It was wonderful to have the opportunity to share some findings from my PhD & hear so many thought-provoking papers at the Gender and Sexuality Politics Conference today.

Many thanks to @blairwilliams26.bsky.social & team for organising 👏

Blue, grey & white PowerPoint slide with title The Influence of Genre of Media Reporting and Types of Sexual Assault on The Age's Representation of ‘Victims’ and 'Perpetrators’, 2011-12

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Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social · 11d

I'm excited to be speaking at the Lines in the Sand festival in Maryborough in October!

This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.

Find out more ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lines-in-t...

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 14d

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social · 15d

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

frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 15d

'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

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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 15d

Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog.

Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol.

Read more here ⬇️
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Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children | Australian Women's History Network

Dr Kate McAnelly explores how refrigerator mother theory was incorrectly used to blame mothers as being the cause of their children's autism.

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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 16d

Does anyone have a good recommendation on a history of the White Australia Policy? The internet keeps telling me to read one that specifically ends at 1920 which is too early for my needs

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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 15d

Kate Laing’s article is not really what you are after but might have some useful sources in the references?

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‘The White Australia Nettle’: women’s internationalism, peace, and the White Australia Policy in the interwar years*

After Australia federated in 1901, the new Commonwealth government implemented policies that were aimed at establishing a system of labour protections for white male workers unparalleled around the...

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 15d

Fantastic #openaccess article 📄 by @dralanagharris.bsky.social & Laura Mitchison in Transactions @royalhistsoc.org on disability, ethics, public history, photography & oral history: Essential read for any of us doing public engagement work on sensitive histories. 🌟

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Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core

Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography

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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 16d

“Memories of childhoods past are always filtered through the concerns of the present, and this supposed freedom is constructed in opposition to the restrictions on children today.”

Be Home By Dark: Childhood Freedoms and Adult Fears in 1950s Victoria by Carla Pascoe

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Be Home By Dark: Childhood Freedoms and Adult Fears in 1950s Victoria

Oral history narratives construct the 1950s as a time of immense freedom for Australian children; roaming the streets happily and safely until night-fall. These idyllic recollections are framed by ...

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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 16d

Fantastic article exploring the complexities of remembering sexual violence during apartheid by Emily Bridger. Based on oral histories conducted with older Black South African women. Open access, y'all.

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(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History*

Abstract. South Africa is a country known for its high rates of gender-based and sexual violence. Historical research demonstrates that such issues are not

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 20d

#periodicals folks, have you seen this before?

Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 20d

Wait, why is this 1890 newspaper printed in two different fonts???

Excerpt from the 1890 newspaper "Östergötlands Veckorblad". Two articles next to each other, the left printed in a latin font while the right is printed in a fraktur font.

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Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social · 20d

My forthcoming book on the #history of #authoritarianism and #dictatorships in modern #Germany now has a cover. Sadly, it seems to have a very timely relevance. It will be out on 22 January 2026 for the very affordable price (at least for an academic book) of £20.

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Nino Bucci @ninobucci.bsky.social · 21d

Here’s that investigation. Thoughts with all the families affected by these senseless deaths and particularly callous racism.

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Lethal highways: the Indigenous pedestrian deaths that haunt the Northern Territory

Aboriginal people in the NT are 15 times more likely to be killed by a car than pedestrians elsewhere in Australia. And efforts to reduce the toll have come up against widespread acceptance of Territo...

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Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social · 23d

"Women have been describing their experiences of male abuse for centuries – we just haven’t always been ready to listen to them."
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social reminds us that if you think domestic and family violence is a new thing, you're not paying attention.

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The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse

In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.

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@DramaMen @dramamen.bsky.social · 21d

You're invited to a free, virtual lecture on all things #DowntonAbbey. Learn abt early #twentiethcentury #british history from the #Edwardians to the #RoaringTwenties.
Thursday Sept 18, 6-7 pm EST Wear your fanciest outfit or comfy pjs! ccplonline.libnet.info/event/14504125

Downton Abbey and Popular British History

Celebrate the release of the new Downton Abbey movie with a talk on the series's depiction of British history with Dr. Julie Taddoe!

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 22d

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social.

Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance

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An advertising banner for Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London. The banner includes an image of the front cover of the book (a blue map on a pink background) and a blurb from the historian Julia Laite, which describes Songs of Seven Dials as 'a poetic exploration of London's most iconic neighbourhoods'.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 23d

I've been asked to recommend articles on India and family planning post WW2 - drawing a blank at the moment (half dozen will spring to mind after I post this??? maybe), does anybody have any suggestions?
I used to be more up-to-date when I was in contact with archive users!

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