Australian Historical Studies
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Australian Historical Studies
@ahsjournal.bsky.social
Since 1940, Australia's oldest peer-reviewed academic journal of Australian history, dealing with all aspects of the history of Australia including its global context. Published by Taylor & Francis.
Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social reviews ‘Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism, and the Archive’, by Anthea Taylor
Published by Routledge
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November 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social reviews ‘The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and Its Afterlives’ by Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles and Jonathan Richards.
@anupress.bsky.social
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November 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Our Nov issue is up, guest ed is Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social it’s devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia. It’s also the final issue for outgoing eds Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley–thanks for your excellent stewardship these last four years
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November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Published online ahead-of-print an article by Zoë Laidlaw, ‘Capital, Agents and Absentees: Port Phillip Pastoralism and the Profits of Slavery’. It's also freely available via open access - abstract below.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Artie McCarthy reviews the exhibition 'Mr Squiggle and Friends: The Creative World of Norman Hetherington', National Museum of Australia, Canberra. It's free to read for 3-mths, thanks to the journal's publisher Taylor & Francis @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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‘It’s upside down, as nearly everything is these days’. Mr Squiggle and Friends, National Museum of Australia
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Cameron Logan @cameronlogan.bsky.social reviews, 'Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner', by Alana Piper
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Mark Finnane reviews, 'The Last Outlaws: The Crimes of Jimmy & Joe Governor and the Birth of Modern Australia', by Katherine Biber
Scribner @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Matthew Cunneen reviews the exhibition, ‘Nolan: For the Term of His Natural Life’, at Canberra Museum and Gallery. A reminder that exhibition reviews are free to read for 3-mths from online publication date, thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Nolan: For the Term of His Natural Life. Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, 10 August 2024–23 February 2025
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Published online, an open access article by Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social ‘1975: Working Migrant Women’. It's part of a guest-edited special issue due out in May 2026, ‘Fifty Years On: Rethinking the Legacies of Australia’s International Women’s Year (1975)’. doi.org/10.1080/1031...
October 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Kate Ariotti reviews ‘Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45’ by Joan Beaumont
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social

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October 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Elizabeth Bowyer reviews ‘Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific 1880–1920’ by Kate Stevens
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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October 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
More book reviews published online ahead of print - first up, David A. Roberts reviews ‘Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales’ by Stephen Gapps
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October 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Congratulations to Geraldine Fela, winner of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History for her book, 'Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia's AIDS Crisis'. Read Shirleene Robinson's review in AHS here,
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September 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
CLOSING NEXT WEEK - submit your entry by Tuesday 30 September to be in the running for the Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize.
Did you present a paper at the AHA conference in July? Email it to us: ahs-history@unimelb.edu.au
See the pinned post for more details.
September 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Rachel Franks @cfwriter.bsky.social reviews ‘Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer, and Her Criminal Son’ by Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex @lucysussex.bsky.social
La Trobe University Press

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September 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Richard Waterhouse reviews, ‘We Are a Farming Class’: Dubbo’s Hinterland, 1870–1950, by Peter Woodley
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September 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Thomas Richardson reviews ‘Beyond the Broken Years: Australian Military History in 1000 Books’ by Peter Stanley @stanleyhistorian.bsky.social
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September 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Published online ahead-of-print, a new article by Nicholas Pitt, ‘Smallpox on the Limits of Location: The Politics of Diagnosis in New South Wales, 1830–34’. It's also freely available to read via open access
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September 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Published online ahead of print, a new article by Anna McMichael, Kate Murphy & Judith Healy, ‘Commerce and Culture: Music Emporia and Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia’.
It’s also open access
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September 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Ken Inglis Postgrad Prize CLOSING SOON - 30 Sept.
Did you present a paper at the AHA conference? Tidy it up and email it to us at ahs-history@unimelb.edu.au
Read the flier for all the T&Cs. You might get published in the journal...good luck!
September 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
New article alert by Samuel Furphy ‘He Does Not Speak of Civilizing the Australians Now’: Matthew Moorhouse, Craniology, and Aboriginal Protection in South Australia, 1839–65.
It's also Open Access and published ahead-of-print.

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September 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social reviews ‘The Southern Frontier: Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World’ by Rowan Howitt
@mupublishing.bsky.social

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September 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
‬Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social ‪reviews ‘Enchantment by Birds: A History of Birdwatching in 22 Species’, by Russell McGregor
@scribepub.bsky.social

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September 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Michelle Arrow, Anna Clark and Frank Bongiorno’s co-authored piece in The Conversation. @michellearrow.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @ouranu.bsky.social @utsengage.bsky.social #MacquarieUniversity
Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.
Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer
theconversation.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Raelene Frances reviews 'Untold Intimacies: A History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978–2008' by Cheryl Ware @cherylware.bsky.social
Published by Auckland University Press

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August 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM