Feel like I’ve got a cheeky advantage on this one 🤭 #aushist #polhist

If you are interested in reviewing a recently published book on British imperial and Commonwealth history (broadly defined), do get in touch!

evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au

I have a new open access article out in
@historyaustralia.bsky.social: '‘Give it to the Mitchell, it would be there for those that
come after us’: interwar feminists’ archival activism and
the recasting of Australian history' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

First Canberra fog of the season!

I have a rare full day today to just research and write - such a blessing. 😍

But how do you balance/juggle on days that you don’t? Any and all advice welcome!

Huge congratulations to historian Michelle Staff, winner of the 2025 Hazel Rowley Fellowship!

www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7!
#STS #histstm #medanthro

Readers hunting through the card catalogue at the Chifley Library, Australian National University, Canberra, 1970s (ANU collection)

Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...

Such a joy to be part of this! Please share widely - new #medhums SI on a huge range of medical & health phenomena from #sensory & #material perspectives

@uclhhcentre.bsky.social @hpsleeds.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social @the-polyphony.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @asmedhum.bsky.social

The deadline for the SSHM Book Development Award is 15 March. This award ( 2 x £2,000.00) is intended to support applicants in turning their proposal into a book with the Social Histories of Medicine series. For more details 👇

Calling all historians/biographers/writers/readers/lovely people 🤸

We've just joined this platform and would love to build a nice little community on here 📚

Let's start the conversation! We want to know: what's your most visited ADB entry? 🤔 Comment below!

📷 State Library of South Australia

Back at NAA getting to delve into the archives! #austhist

Just quietly - I am writing again for the first time in a very long time. Equal parts thrilling and extremely daunting. Anyone else get that fear of having lost all of your skills? Just me?

📣 Apply now to be our new Project Officer in First Nations Histories!

This is an exciting opportunity for a Project Officer to produce First Nations programs for HCNSW Members and general audiences.

Applications close Wednesday the 12th March

Learn more via https://buff.ly/3PTaZuD

@Create_NSW

We're so pleased to present to our members a workshop navigating non-academic careers: the registrations are open now! (Like to attend, but not a member? This is the perfect opportunity to join!)

Out on 28 March! There are chapters about communities, Indigenous people, veterans and PTSD, depathologisation of trans health and much more. We are having a little online launch on the evening of 31 March so if you’re interested please DM me for details.

I’m so pleased to have a chapter in this important book, which you can pre-order now:
thamesandhudson.com.au/product/how-...

It’s been a while since I’ve been active on social media as a historian - just lurking and seeing what’s happening on blue sky …