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Domestic Abuse Is Not Your Halloween Punchline Schitt’s Creek's star Emily Hampshire dressed as Johnny Depp with a wine bottle for Halloween, her friend as Amber Heard. Domestic assault isn't a joke.

There's a long tradition of people dressing up as famous women during their lowest moments.
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After ‘Anglobalisation’: Anglo-German Relations in Australasia Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 56, No. 4, 2025)

My introduction to a brand new special issue of 'Australian Historical Studies' devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia has just appeared. Thanks to all of the contributors and the journal's editors. 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Imagine introducing laws to protect kids from how toxic social media is and... thanking News Corp for helping?

Every media outlet that uses social media as a distribution channel actively shapes the culture of those platforms.

These things are not separate.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...

Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.

Today we learned of a shocking amendment to the income apportionment bill that involves police in social security decisions.

We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments.

Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?

🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word!

www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...

Gender and Segregation: An Introduction This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregatio....

Critical introduction to forthcoming "Gender & Segregation" special issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social by Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me is now out and #OpenAccess! Issue itself to follow shortly... 🌟

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It also raises the question of how adults (& the criminal justice system) will respond to teens who have been victimised online - will they end up being treated as the ‘problem’ for breaching social media ban?

Out online: an analysis of tweets posted to LGBTQIA + Australian politicians during the 2022 federal election Social media has increasingly become crucial for political actors, especially during election campaigns. However, these platforms are not without risks, as they can expose politicians to various fo...

It's great to see the publication of the second paper from our "queer pollies" project exploring the social media harassment of LGBTQIA+ politicians during the 2022 Australian federal election.

It's also Open Access!

#AusPol

@eliseinthewoods.bsky.social gosiami.bsky.social @jackhayes.bsky.social

History and the Notion of Authenticity in Control and 24 Hour Party People In the last decade, two films about Joy Division and the Manchester music scene in the 1970s have been released, 24 Hour Party People and Control, but these films are dramatically different in thei...

Finished academic version here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Congratulations Kurt 👏

Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.

Help, the bot I fed on racism has turned out to be a racist. theconversation.com/historical-i...

New from your friends @australiainstitute.org.au: The Point! Get the news, fact checks and explainers you need on everything from international relations to climate change.
thepoint.com.au

It's explainers, op-eds, fact checks, pre-bunking, research and the blog, with plans for news features and investigative journalism as it grows. So it's not news, news, but what's going on behind and around the news, issues based, and what matters. And it's free. Hope to see you there x

Congratulations Nicole 👏👏

Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39 There are some eighty-five county magazines across England, read by millions. This case study of 1930s Cheshire Life explains their appeal and demonstrates their value for twentieth-century social ...

New open-access article on a peculiar type of periodical, the county magazine:
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
doi.org/10.1080/1478...
In Cultural and Social History

A banner advert for Matt Houlbrook’s new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London

There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.

I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.

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New article out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's gestation began in late 2021, shortly before I started my current job teaching Black British history. It's the product of my frustrations with the way that the histories of racism & fascism in Britain are written about.
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MUP’s biggest publication day is here 📚

🧡 Rebel Women Speak
🍯 Honey From the Ground
🇺🇸 Turbulence
📸 Early Photography in Colonial Australia
📖 Saltwater Fella
🌿 Red Earth
🏙️ Shutter City
🏡 Great Properties of the Riverina and Upper Murray

Book cover for Zoe Mcgee's Courting Disaster, set in front of a row of 18th-century books, with a yellow flower at its feet

What a brilliant title! Courting Disaster by @thezhm.bsky.social 📚🌷

A fascinating, feminist dive into 18C literature – from Richardson to Austen – shedding light on ‘courtship’, consent, & the power of literature

📖 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188854/
(TY @manchesterup.bsky.social 🤓)

My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB:
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The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore

A new initiative from the AHA: a monthly column in The Guardian providing an historical perspective on present-day events! We're starting with Roland Burke, thinking about misinformation and the links between the UN of today and the 1930s. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yeah it’s a clip from one of their podcasts. It is probably rage bait (& the podcast might on to discuss the benefits of readings) but seems a bit reductive.

Mamamia’s god awful clickbait asking if children even need to read in today’s digital world (& positioning reading books as boastful) is indicative that yes they really should be reading books 🙃

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! 🌟⭐️💫 I’m very happy to see Voices of Thunder going out into the world 📚

Asking for a colleague, is there literature out there on using police interview transcripts as a historical source, particularly from a methodological perspective?

#historians #histcrim 🗃️

DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore

The war against 'false news' is not 'new', but has been a concern of international organisations for over 100 years. The ever captivating Roland Burke launches a new Guardian column, Past/Present, sponsored by the @austhistassoc.bsky.social.

Survivors in Transition are re-running their 2015 survey about disclosure and support for people who were sexually abused in childhood. Nearly 400 people took part last time and the report helped improve services for survivors. Have things changed? RT pls www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/FocusOnSur...

History isn’t just about who was in power, it is also about who were the people. If our focus is solely on who was at the top and what was happening in the palaces, stately homes and Houses of Parliament, we miss the stories of everyone else. And ‘everyone else’ was the majority of the population.

Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)

Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉

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