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So many great stories! Thank you 💙
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The ADB’s First Nations Working Party is adding more entries on Indigenous subjects all the time.
To read more, visit adb.anu.edu.au
📷 NAA + families + Elders
🎵 Mama Pasifika we got to stand strong 🎵
Read about Lea Firth & the Black Sistaz in the ninth volume of AJBH.
Access free via @anupress.bsky.social
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PS if you don't have institutional access, you can download one of fifty free e-prints here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NDEH8...
ADB team members @michellestaff.bsky.social & @as-ruby.bsky.social have reviewed the National Library of Australia's Fit to Print exhibition for @historyaustralia.bsky.social 📸
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📷 Women playing rugby, 1930, NLA
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The Oceania takeover of the ADB social media channels continues 🌊
Today we’re looking at @taleilu.bsky.social's article on Amelia Rokotuivuna and her intellectual legacy.
Read it free online with @anupress.bsky.social 👇
#oceanialives
Pauline Reynolds’ article in the AJBH no. 9 starts with a small rectangular barkcloth (tapa) and expands into a poetic reflection on family history and memory
Read it online open access thanks to @anupress.bsky.social
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Norman Hetherington is best known as a puppeteer and children’s entertainer, but he started his career first as a commercial artist, then became a cartoonist for The Bulletin ✏️
Learn all about him in his new ADB entry:
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/he...
📷 AWM + Trove
From AJBH no. 9, Oceania Lives 🌊
An exploration of the life of Futukava, by Ruth (Lute) Faleolo & Emma ‘Ilaiū Vehikite
Read it online via @anupress.bsky.social now
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Another day, another fantastic article from the Oceania Lives issue of the AJBH!
Lisa Hilli’s article sheds light on a remarkable group of Papua New Guinean women, the FMI Sisters of Vunapope.
Read it via @anupress.bsky.social online: press.anu.edu.au/publications...
#oceanialives
We've teamed up with the @nationalmuseumaus.bsky.social to produce a special entry on the creator of Mr Squiggle, Norman Hetherington 🎨
Have a read, then check out the exhibition Mr Squiggle and Friends: The Creative World of Norman Hetherington
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📷 NMA
Next up in the Oceania Lives series we're taking a look at the story of Aboriginal and South Sea Islander leader, artist and writer, Mabel Edmund
Read the full article in the AJBH:
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...
Up first from the ‘Oceania Lives’ issue of the AJBH is an article on Aboriginal and South Sea Islander activist, photographer and radio broadcaster, Lisa Bellear (1961-2006)
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#onthisday the ABC was established 📻📺
Every Monday for the next few weeks the ADB’s Oceania Working Party will be taking over this account to share articles from their recent special issue of the Australian Journal of Biography & History, ‘Oceania Lives’ 💫
@anupress.bsky.social @anu-chl.bsky.social
Learn about the fateful Second Fleet voyage in the ADB and in our journal, the Australian Journal of Biography and History @anupress.bsky.social ⚓️
For a taster, read the blog by Nichola Garvey for VIDA @auswhn.bsky.social
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/the-nep...
ICYMI: Shauna Bostock selected for ABC TOP 5 residency 👇
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Great posts & fascinating stories!
One for our overseas readers ✈️
Last year we published an entry on acclaimed artist and designer Leigh Bowery ✒️
This year Tate Modern is hosting an exhibition to mark Bowery’s ‘boundary-pushing career’ 🎨
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bo...
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
📷 Robyn Beeche Foundation
Great news to start the week at the ADB 🗞️
Indigenous research editor Dr Shauna Bostock has been awarded one of the coveted ABC TOP 5 Humanities residencies. Congratulations, Shauna! 🎉🎉
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#bornonthisday in 1885: Dorothea Pavy (née Proud), teacher, sociologist & lawyer 👩🎓
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pa...
📷 State Library of South Australia
#OnThisDay in 1815 the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to the Napoleonic Wars
It might surprise you to know that there are plenty of people in the ADB whose lives were shaped by this conflict.
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📷 @utas.edu.au @statelibraryqld.bsky.social @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social
In the latest #VIDAblog in the Australian Journal of Biography and History series, Richard Fotheringham’s research on entertainer Jenny Howard leads him to the idea of ‘echoic biography’.
@ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social
Find out more ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/towards...
Next month the National Centre of Biography is teaming up with Harry Hartog for an in-conversation event all about Dr Kerrie Davies' new book, Miles Franklin Undercover.
Register to attend now 👇
www.harryhartog.com.au/blogs/author...
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This Pride Month we are continuing to spotlight queer subjects in the ADB 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Today it’s writer and playwright, Sumner Locke Elliott. Though he spent the majority of his life in the United States, many of his works reflected his Australian roots.
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/el...
Meet trans personality and fashionista, Lady Paula Howard.
This entry was an opportunity to reflect on our practices when writing the lives of trans or other gender-diverse people, and we were ably guided by author @noahriseman.bsky.social
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ho...
📷 Seahorse Victoria