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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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.
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Cameron Logan @cameronlogan.bsky.social reviews, 'Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner', by Alana Piper
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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
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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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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
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Scribner @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
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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
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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
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Elizabeth Bowyer reviews ‘Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific 1880–1920’ by Kate Stevens
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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
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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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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
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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
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...
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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La Trobe University Press
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September 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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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La Trobe University Press
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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
Richard Waterhouse reviews, ‘We Are a Farming Class’: Dubbo’s Hinterland, 1870–1950, by Peter Woodley
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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
Thomas Richardson reviews ‘Beyond the Broken Years: Australian Military History in 1000 Books’ by Peter Stanley @stanleyhistorian.bsky.social
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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 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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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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It’s also open access
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September 15, 2025 at 5:35 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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It’s also open access
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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!
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
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!
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!
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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It's also Open Access and published ahead-of-print.
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September 8, 2025 at 2:47 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.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It's also Open Access and published ahead-of-print.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social reviews ‘The Southern Frontier: Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World’ by Rowan Howitt
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September 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social reviews ‘The Southern Frontier: Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World’ by Rowan Howitt
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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social reviews ‘Enchantment by Birds: A History of Birdwatching in 22 Species’, by Russell McGregor
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September 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social reviews ‘Enchantment by Birds: A History of Birdwatching in 22 Species’, by Russell McGregor
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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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Published by Auckland University Press
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August 26, 2025 at 7:57 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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Published by Auckland University Press
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Rachel Standfield & Katherine Ellinghaus review 'Too Far Out: An Administrative History of the Ngaanyatjarra Homelands' by Max Angus
Hesperian Press
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Hesperian Press
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August 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Rachel Standfield & Katherine Ellinghaus review 'Too Far Out: An Administrative History of the Ngaanyatjarra Homelands' by Max Angus
Hesperian Press
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Hesperian Press
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Bridget Brooklyn reviews 'A Battle-Axe in the Bear Pit: Millicent Preston Stanley MP', by Wendy Michaels.
A timely review as May 2025 marked 100 years since Millicent Preston-Stanley became NSW’s first female MP.
Published by Connor Court
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A timely review as May 2025 marked 100 years since Millicent Preston-Stanley became NSW’s first female MP.
Published by Connor Court
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August 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Bridget Brooklyn reviews 'A Battle-Axe in the Bear Pit: Millicent Preston Stanley MP', by Wendy Michaels.
A timely review as May 2025 marked 100 years since Millicent Preston-Stanley became NSW’s first female MP.
Published by Connor Court
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A timely review as May 2025 marked 100 years since Millicent Preston-Stanley became NSW’s first female MP.
Published by Connor Court
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....