James Keating

💫 Open access from 21 August! 💫

Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY

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Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷

Tuesday Talks: Books in my life with Jo Case Hear entertaining and inspiring talks from guest speakers about the books that have shaped and influenced their lives. Upcoming talks: Tuesday 5 August 2025 Jo Case, writer and reviewer Tuesday 2 Sept...

If you love books (esp memoirs & diaries), are in Adelaide and are free 11am-12 noon tomorrow, I'm giving a free talk about the memoir trilogies (soon to be quartets) of Mary Karr & Mandy Sayer, and Helen Garner's diaries, at the State Library of South Australia.

www.slsa.sa.gov.au/events/tuesd...

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

It is 2025, and someone *now* is preparing to publish an 1850s pastoralist’s diary *editing out* all the coded bits where he describes murdering Yamatji people.

In 2025.

But sure, let’s hear more about how the Great Australian Silence is over.

The Australian edition of ASH is coming September 2nd from @allenandunwin.bsky.social with this absolutely glorious cover. Pre-order from the link below and available in all good Australian bookstores very soon 🌋

www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/... @thebooksdesk.bsky.social

Public histories and private struggles: the place of Janet McCalman’s Struggletown in Australian historiography On the 35th anniversary of the publication of Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900–1965, this article explores the reception of the book and its subsequent impact on Australian hi...

Reading Janet McCalman's work for a new project and came across Carla Pascoe Leahy's excellent reflection on the influence and legacy of Struggletown. Hope the @historyaustralia.bsky.social have future articles commissioned for their 'Landmark Histories in Retrospect' series: doi.org/10.1080/1449...

Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–1900 This essay explores the value of recently developed concepts such as coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse for histories of domestic and family violence. It does so...

Open access! @anncurthoys.bsky.social from our forum on DV history in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

Full article: Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–1900 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Re-entering the online world of academia to share my latest work post-mat leave -- my very pithily titled article "Another Human Sacrifice Thrown to the Pitiless Moloch of Police Power" on anti-vaccination politics at the turn of the twentieth century. TLDR below.

🚨 New article published today:

I explore findings from interviews with young people who described how coercive control by parents shaped their daily lives and long-term wellbeing.

👉🏼 Read here: theconversation.com/i-was-very-f...

Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (about:blank). We also write as individuals with a range of political beliefs. We are de...

If you would like to add your voice in support, you can sign here:

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definitely the worst thing about the destruction of mass media and the fragmentation of audiences is political changes that would’ve otherwise been defeated by a media campaign (e.g the government disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people) just aren’t challenged, let alone won, anymore

In an extract from her new book, Narungga poet and researcher Natalie Harkin reveals intimate truths about the shameful history of Aboriginal domestic labour. 👉 theconversation.com/friday-...

Ministry for Culture and Heritage confirms 80 percent cut in senior historian roles Manatū Taonga is going ahead with cutting the jobs of most of its historians.

Sheer vandalism. Aotearoa / NZ showing its determination to institutionally forget its history. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

NZ's Ministry for Culture and Heritage has been home to many exceptional historians and done invaluable work to promote understanding of the nation's past at home and around the world

Now that the barbarians are in charge, that will be no more

'The disestablishment of four out of five senior historian jobs has been confirmed, among a total of 30 or so job cuts proposed last month to save money after the ministry's funding was reduced in Budget 2025.'

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Changes to electoral law will disenfranchise thousands – and may not save any time The government does not want to spend the time and resources to fully modernise the law and processes surrounding our electoral rolls – so who are the real dropkicks in this story?

Reckons ranted …

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

The jewel in the crown of the ANU • Inside Story Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts

Thanks to Tom Griffiths & Mark McKenna for writing so powerfully about the national significance of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and the Australian National Dictionary, currently facing cuts & 'disestablishment' - 'cultural vandalism on a breathtaking scale'

inside.org.au/the-jewel-in...

Historicising domestic abuse in Australia 1850–2020: how useful is new language for describing an old problem? In recent decades, closer attention to experiences of domestic and family violence has resulted in the naming and detailing of different forms of abuse that fall into the category of domestic and f...

Free access intro to our WHR forum! Articles to come - w @anncurthoys.bsky.social , Cath Kevin, Claire Morey & Zoe Smith

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WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness week in Australia 📢

I wrote a blog exploring the hidden histories of birth trauma and obstetric violence ⬇️

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori...

#birthtraumaawareness #birthtrauma #obstetricviolence

Women's Education | Australian Women's History Network This blog begins a new series, edited by Kaitlin Mills, dedicated to exploring the different higher learning opportunities, both formal and informal, available globally to women from the nineteenth ce...

"Women's Education" is a new series, edited by #VIDAblog editorial assistant Kaitlin Mills.

This series explores the different higher learning opportunities, both formal and informal, available to women globally from the 19C onwards 🎓🍎

Find out more ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/womens-...

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
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From bluey to bogans: Researchers who help define how the nation speaks to lose their jobs For almost 40 years, the words the nation uses in speech, newspapers and books has been mapped by a small team at the Australian National Dictionary Centre.

I can't believe ANU is proposing to disestablish ANDC @ozworders.bsky.social‬. Over the last 20 years of writing I've often consulted staff over the origins of obscure words and phrases. We need the dictionary to record and explain our changing language. www.smh.com.au/national/fro...

About AMHN Steering Committee (Current) Professor Ruth Balint, University of New South Wales Dr Alexandra Dellios, Australian National University Dr Roland Leikauf, Australian National Maritime Museum Dr…

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest: Join the Steering Committee of the Australian Migration History Network
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can we please just have more book reviews instead of these weird pieces about whether or not straight white men can still read or publish novels

Australia can't withstand further humanities cuts The Australian Academy of Humanities views with great concern the impact on staff, students and the wider community of the ANU’s plan for the humanities and social sciences. Now is not the time to red...

Australia can’t withstand further humanities cuts. Civil society depends on it.
While universities have the right to determine their education & research priorities, no one in Australia has a handle on the effects of cuts & their impact on our national skills & knowledge capabilities. bit.ly/3TqI4jn

look, i know i made my own history but i swear it was not under conditions of my own choosing

The Wild Australia Show <p>The Wild Australia Show was a troupe of 27 Aboriginal performers recruited from northern Queensland in the 1890s for a world tour that would culminate at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago...

The Wild Australia Show, now out as a free download! Congratulations to the authors! doi.org/10.22459/WAS... doi.org/10.22459/WAS...

Welsh group makes 264 sashes for female MPs to mark women's vote Each MP received a sash to mark 97 years of women being given the right to vote.

Okay, this is obviously lovely in lots of ways. However, the homogenisation of the British suffrage movement to only include the WSPU and their colours does an unacceptable disservice to the diverse and hugely significant contribution the many suffrage organisations who fought for (cont.)