Australian Historical Studies
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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.
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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
Published online ahead-of-print, an article by Jesse Adams Stein, Elizabeth Humphrys, and Bettina Frankham, ‘Safe Bodies, Hot Plastic? Practical Issues in the Introduction of High-Visibility Workwear (Hi-Vis) in Australia, 1960s–80s’. Abstract below.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Published online ahead-of-print, an article by Jesse Adams Stein, Elizabeth Humphrys, and Bettina Frankham, ‘Safe Bodies, Hot Plastic? Practical Issues in the Introduction of High-Visibility Workwear (Hi-Vis) in Australia, 1960s–80s’. Abstract below.
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
Raewyn Dalziel reviews ‘Isaac Featherston ‘Petatone’: A Colonial Life’, by John E. Martin
Published by Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Published by Te Herenga Waka University Press
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December 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Raewyn Dalziel reviews ‘Isaac Featherston ‘Petatone’: A Colonial Life’, by John E. Martin
Published by Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Published by Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Eugene Schofield-Georgeson reviews ‘A Fair Day’s Work: The Quest to Win Back Time’, by Sean Scalmer
Published by Melbourne University Press
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Published by Melbourne University Press
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December 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Eugene Schofield-Georgeson reviews ‘A Fair Day’s Work: The Quest to Win Back Time’, by Sean Scalmer
Published by Melbourne University Press
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Published by Melbourne University Press
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Jim McAloon reviews ‘The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa’, by Catherine Comyn
Published by Economic and Social Research Aotearoa
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Published by Economic and Social Research Aotearoa
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December 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Jim McAloon reviews ‘The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa’, by Catherine Comyn
Published by Economic and Social Research Aotearoa
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Published by Economic and Social Research Aotearoa
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Jock Phillips reviews ‘The Last Tour: Paul and Eslanda Robeson’s Visit to Australia and New Zealand’, by Ann Curthoys
Published by The Miegunyah Press
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Published by The Miegunyah Press
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December 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Jock Phillips reviews ‘The Last Tour: Paul and Eslanda Robeson’s Visit to Australia and New Zealand’, by Ann Curthoys
Published by The Miegunyah Press
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Published by The Miegunyah Press
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This time next week a whole host of AHA members will be speaking as part of the Aus Academy of the Humanities and CHASS' symposium on academic freedom. It's free and open to the public: register your attendance at the link! humanities.org.au/events/acade...
Academic Freedom Symposium – Australian Academy of the Humanities
Join us at this year's CHASS in Melbourne to explore what it means to define, contest and safeguard academic freedom in the 21st century.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This time next week a whole host of AHA members will be speaking as part of the Aus Academy of the Humanities and CHASS' symposium on academic freedom. It's free and open to the public: register your attendance at the link! humanities.org.au/events/acade...
James Watson reviews ‘Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia’ by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social, Andrew Saniga and David Beynon
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
James Watson reviews ‘Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia’ by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social, Andrew Saniga and David Beynon
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social reviews ‘Clever Men: How Worlds Collided on the Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948’, by Martin Thomas @anu-chl.bsky.social
Allen & Unwin @allenandunwin.bsky.social
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Allen & Unwin @allenandunwin.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social reviews ‘Clever Men: How Worlds Collided on the Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948’, by Martin Thomas @anu-chl.bsky.social
Allen & Unwin @allenandunwin.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Allen & Unwin @allenandunwin.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Greg Ryan reviews ‘Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia’, by Matthew Allen
McGill-Queen’s University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
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McGill-Queen’s University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Greg Ryan reviews ‘Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia’, by Matthew Allen
McGill-Queen’s University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
McGill-Queen’s University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New book reviews just published online 👀📚👏🏽
Matthew Ricketson reviews ‘Australian Newspapers in the Television Age, 1956–2006’, by Rodney Tiffen
Anthem Press @anthempress.bsky.social
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Matthew Ricketson reviews ‘Australian Newspapers in the Television Age, 1956–2006’, by Rodney Tiffen
Anthem Press @anthempress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New book reviews just published online 👀📚👏🏽
Matthew Ricketson reviews ‘Australian Newspapers in the Television Age, 1956–2006’, by Rodney Tiffen
Anthem Press @anthempress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Matthew Ricketson reviews ‘Australian Newspapers in the Television Age, 1956–2006’, by Rodney Tiffen
Anthem Press @anthempress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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.
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
Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social reviews ‘Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism, and the Archive’, by Anthea Taylor
Published by Routledge
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Published by Routledge
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November 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social reviews ‘Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism, and the Archive’, by Anthea Taylor
Published by Routledge
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Published by Routledge
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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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@anupress.bsky.social
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November 3, 2025 at 12:55 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
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@anupress.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
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
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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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
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
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cameron Logan @cameronlogan.bsky.social reviews, 'Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner', by Alana Piper
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Cameron Logan @cameronlogan.bsky.social reviews, 'Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner', by Alana Piper
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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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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Scribner @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 2:20 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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Scribner @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
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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
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
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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
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...
Kate Ariotti reviews ‘Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45’ by Joan Beaumont
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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October 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Kate Ariotti reviews ‘Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45’ by Joan Beaumont
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Bowyer reviews ‘Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific 1880–1920’ by Kate Stevens
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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October 7, 2025 at 6:27 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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@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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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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@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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October 7, 2025 at 6:16 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
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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,
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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,
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
doi.org/10.1080/1031...