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Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

Former ACT commissioner alleges sexual assault and harassment Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts says she stepped down as the ACT's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner to prioritise her safety after being subjected to sexual harassment and sexual assault by a public servant.

Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts says she stepped down as the ACT's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner to prioritise her safety after being subjected to sexual harassment and sexual assault by a public servant.

10. Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Through the entangled lives of a young journalist Hannah and a senior academic Ashraf, Discipline examines the personal and professional costs of speaking up about Palestine & simultaneously exposes the violence of institutions in the face in justice.

9. Rapture by Emily Maguire

Set in ninth-century Mainz, a young girl Agnes, the daughter of an English priest, seeks to find her place in society outside the socially acceptable roles for women as either a nun or wife and mother.

Please do Kate! To add to existing comments I always found AHA conferences as a PhD student an encouraging space to share your research.

Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945* Abstract. Thinking about and planning for the end of war generally begins as soon as fighting breaks out, if not long before. Yet few studies analyse how p

New article, by Frances M Clarke, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social, Reto Hofmann and Hans-Lukas Kieser: 'Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945'

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Online Workshop - ANZSHM x Health & History

What is the peer review process and how do you deal with reviewer feedback?

February 26th 2025 @ 3pm AEDT (2pm AEST)

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8. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Rooney explores how after the death of their father brothers Peter and Ivan Koubek relationship with each other & their romantic interests were strained by grief & simultaneously tested by competing desires.

7. Women & Children by Tony Birch

A poignant historical fiction set in 1960s Melbourne, Women & Children bares witness to Australian society’s normalisation of domestic violence and racism as experienced through the eyes of a young boy.

Disabled and academic: a collaborative autoethnography on ableism and cruel optimism within Australian higher education Universities are celebrated as bastions of teaching, knowledge and research excellence, but they can pose risks to staff psychosocial safety and wellbeing. In Australia and elsewhere, we are increa...

Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...

Even the most famous victims are silenced From the Epstein files to Amber Heard, we obsess over victims while denying their own right to speak.

I wrote about how the women Epstein and co victimized have been minimized and ignored as individuals even in popular discourse about the very abuse they endured—and how the legal system has punished them and other women, not helped them, for daring to come forward.
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👏 Hope you enjoy!

6. Cape Fever by Nadia Davids

A compelling historical fiction set in an unnamed small city within the British empire during the 1920s. Davids utilises gothic conventions to unsettlingly reveal the long haunts of colonial power, racial prejudices and the Great War on South African society.

Congrats Simon on a great article 👏

My first ever Conversation article!

The physical copies of my new book, based on my DECRA research, have arrived! You can order a copy for your library here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-... or read about the project at: www.beautysalonproject.com

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Thank you Beth! Wont be long & it will be you 🥰

Thank you Simon!

Thank you Harry, hope your post-doc is going well!

Today has been surreal as I submitted my PhD Thesis, A History of Sexual Assault Reporting in The Age, 2011-20 for examination.

We deserve ethical & responsible sexual assault reporting whether that be within traditional media forums or on social media.

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university

1. History & Memory: Uses & Abuses of the Past
2. Underbelly Australia: Crime & Punishment
3. US Foreign Policy Since 1945
4. Event & Experiment: Twentieth-Century Literature
5. Countercultures: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

5. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

There was some unintentional synergy between my previous two books as O’Farrell fictionalising gaps in the historical record around Shakespeare’s son Hamnet’s death.

4. Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

A poignant and sharp novel centring around a production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the West Bank to explore notions of family, identity and resistance.

The UK edition of the crown silence, out now!

Happy 🇬🇧 UK pub day to THE CROWN’S SILENCE—a deeply researched narrative history of the monarchy’s centuries-long entanglement with slavery. This is the new history book the far right loathes. Please buy it b/c it’s important history but—also—it will really piss them off if it does well in the UK!!😉😘