Simone Sharpe
@sharpehistory.bsky.social
Historian – local history, urban history, public history, manufacturing/industry, digitisation, archives, Melbourne, Australia. She/her
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🎧LISTEN: Michelle Grattan is one of the few remaining working journalists who witnesses The Dismissal first hand. She shares her memories of that tumultuous day.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Remembering the day Gough Whitlam lost his job
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
🎧LISTEN: Michelle Grattan is one of the few remaining working journalists who witnesses The Dismissal first hand. She shares her memories of that tumultuous day.
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
In a world with democracy in decline, we have much to learn from those who rallied against Whitlam’s dismissal | Frank Bongiorno and James Watson
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
In a world with democracy in decline, we have much to learn from those who rallied against Whitlam’s dismissal | Frank Bongiorno and James Watson
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Booklovers in Victoria, help me out.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Booklovers in Victoria, help me out.
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Hot off the press! Manufacturing & the Australian City, five articles examining the transformative role of manufacturing in the evolution of Melbourne, Sydney & Adelaide with a rich introduction by the editors Frost, O'Hanlon & Shanahan. A special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!
Special Issue: Manufacturing and the Australian City: Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review: Vol 65, No 3
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Hot off the press! Manufacturing & the Australian City, five articles examining the transformative role of manufacturing in the evolution of Melbourne, Sydney & Adelaide with a rich introduction by the editors Frost, O'Hanlon & Shanahan. A special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!
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Fahey, O'Hanlon & Robertson use a wide variety of sources to narrate the industrialization of two Melbourne suburbs Cremorne & South Richmond, a transformation of the local urban environment & changes in the economic & social structures experienced by the working class. New in the Asia-Pacific EcHR!
Becoming industrial: Building, rebuilding and reinventing Cremorne and South Richmond, c1885–1930
This article examines the economic, social, and morphological changes associated with the arrival, consolidation, and expansion of two major manufacturing complexes in inner Melbourne from the 1880s ...
doi.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Fahey, O'Hanlon & Robertson use a wide variety of sources to narrate the industrialization of two Melbourne suburbs Cremorne & South Richmond, a transformation of the local urban environment & changes in the economic & social structures experienced by the working class. New in the Asia-Pacific EcHR!
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Some of you may be interested in this symposium on 'truth-telling' (in its many guises) being held at the University of Melbourne this week. Students and mob can attend for free, Unimelb staff get a 20% discount, and unwaged scholars get a 75% discount. I will be there for some of Friday's sessions!
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Some of you may be interested in this symposium on 'truth-telling' (in its many guises) being held at the University of Melbourne this week. Students and mob can attend for free, Unimelb staff get a 20% discount, and unwaged scholars get a 75% discount. I will be there for some of Friday's sessions!
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Excited to be part of this incredible team writing the first history of grandparenting in Australia! grandparentsaustralia.net
Grandparenting tells us much about our history. It’s important to preserve these stories
Grandparents can play a fundamental role in families, yet they have often been overlooked in Australian history.
theconversation.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Excited to be part of this incredible team writing the first history of grandparenting in Australia! grandparentsaustralia.net
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as a side note, a lot of food banks in the U.K.- I dunno about the USA- won’t accept or give out formula (despite the govt publishing explicit guidance that legally they can do so).
Every time I buy someone formula, I also give them info on where, locally, they can get ongoing support.
Every time I buy someone formula, I also give them info on where, locally, they can get ongoing support.
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
as a side note, a lot of food banks in the U.K.- I dunno about the USA- won’t accept or give out formula (despite the govt publishing explicit guidance that legally they can do so).
Every time I buy someone formula, I also give them info on where, locally, they can get ongoing support.
Every time I buy someone formula, I also give them info on where, locally, they can get ongoing support.
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Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.
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I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
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What an honour it was to deliver the Curtin University 9th Annual Human Rights Lecture: Celebrating 22 Years of Research, Advocacy and Teaching
🎥 Watch the full lecture and opening address here: youtu.be/fcvF-6fQD8A
🎥 Watch the full lecture and opening address here: youtu.be/fcvF-6fQD8A
CHRE Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025
YouTube video by Curtin University
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
What an honour it was to deliver the Curtin University 9th Annual Human Rights Lecture: Celebrating 22 Years of Research, Advocacy and Teaching
🎥 Watch the full lecture and opening address here: youtu.be/fcvF-6fQD8A
🎥 Watch the full lecture and opening address here: youtu.be/fcvF-6fQD8A
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Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief -new title due out in 2026. Co-edited by Kaylee Alexander and Robert Spinelli Bristol Press
Never too early to make an announcement!
Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief will be released in 2026 with Bristol University Press. This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates… | Ro...
Never too early to make an announcement!
Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief will be released in 2026 with Bristol University Press. This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates colle...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief -new title due out in 2026. Co-edited by Kaylee Alexander and Robert Spinelli Bristol Press
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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'A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads. The findings nearly double the known length of Roman roads.'
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
'A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads. The findings nearly double the known length of Roman roads.'
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Gratified folks liked this thread. Cause I miss my mom and am proud of her final work.
I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Gratified folks liked this thread. Cause I miss my mom and am proud of her final work.
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Note from my notebook (2016)
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Note from my notebook (2016)
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
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My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...
Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him
Tony Abbott begins his book Australia: A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...
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This week Historians At The Movies talks about colonialism, Ireland, the Congo, and the Cold War. Join us on Netflix this Sunday, November 2 at 8pm eastern for THE SIEGE OF JADOTVILLE.
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
October 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This week Historians At The Movies talks about colonialism, Ireland, the Congo, and the Cold War. Join us on Netflix this Sunday, November 2 at 8pm eastern for THE SIEGE OF JADOTVILLE.
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
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Grace Tame's review of Tony Abbott's book is an absolute scream, in two ways.
People read this. It is a takedown of a racist book written by a racist who thinks he is the solution to Australia's problem, i.e, the one he manufactures. The review of Tony Abbott's book is clear and acerbic and funny.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21955/...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21955/...
Tony Abbott’s warped story of Australia
Tony Abbott’s history of Australia is a version that sanitises the worst effects of colonialism and immigration policy, and leans into the destructive doctrine of Trump.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Grace Tame's review of Tony Abbott's book is an absolute scream, in two ways.
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After I received this message about my book from Stephen Fry, I told my mate Matt from Notts about it. Matt was the only person I knew who was as obsessed with A Bit of Fry & Laurie as I was in 1992.
"Make sure you tell him from me that he's standing in my children," said Matt.
So naturally I did.
"Make sure you tell him from me that he's standing in my children," said Matt.
So naturally I did.
Sometimes I think about me and my mates at 17, walking around Nottingham city centre, obsessively quoting sketches from A Bit Of Fry And Laurie at one another, and it properly sinks in how nuts and surreal this is.
October 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
After I received this message about my book from Stephen Fry, I told my mate Matt from Notts about it. Matt was the only person I knew who was as obsessed with A Bit of Fry & Laurie as I was in 1992.
"Make sure you tell him from me that he's standing in my children," said Matt.
So naturally I did.
"Make sure you tell him from me that he's standing in my children," said Matt.
So naturally I did.
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In case you missed it, I recently posted the children’s book version of this meeting on my Patreon. Read it for free at the link below.
It’s been 1 year since a little orange fluffball climbed my leg in the parking lot at work. Since then Dandy has grown to be a part of Spike’s and my family. She’s also gained a bunch of aunts and uncles here and I hope has brought some joy into the world. Happy Gotcha Day Dandy!
October 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
In case you missed it, I recently posted the children’s book version of this meeting on my Patreon. Read it for free at the link below.
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The paperback edition of #OnFreedom is out today. It preserves a positive argument about how to build a better country and has been updated to account for what has happened in 2025.
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The paperback edition of #OnFreedom is out today. It preserves a positive argument about how to build a better country and has been updated to account for what has happened in 2025.
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom