Australian Historical Studies

Published online, an article by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, ‘The Emotional Labour of Feminism: Australia’s International Women’s Year 1975’. Abstract below.
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Published online ahead-of-print, an article by Judith Brett,’ Civil Liberties, Humanism, and Feminism: The Political Formation of Three Abortion Law Reform Campaigners – Beryl Henderson, Julia Freebury, and Beatrice Faust’. Abstract below.
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Published online ahead-of-print, an article by Jesse Adams Stein, Elizabeth Humphrys, and Bettina Frankham, ‘Safe Bodies, Hot Plastic? Practical Issues in the Introduction of High-Visibility Workwear (Hi-Vis) in Australia, 1960s–80s’. Abstract below.
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Raewyn Dalziel reviews ‘Isaac Featherston ‘Petatone’: A Colonial Life’, by John E. Martin
Published by Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Eugene Schofield-Georgeson reviews ‘A Fair Day’s Work: The Quest to Win Back Time’, by Sean Scalmer
Published by Melbourne University Press
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Jim McAloon reviews ‘The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa’, by Catherine Comyn
Published by Economic and Social Research Aotearoa
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Jock Phillips reviews ‘The Last Tour: Paul and Eslanda Robeson’s Visit to Australia and New Zealand’, by Ann Curthoys
Published by The Miegunyah Press
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Academic Freedom Symposium – Australian Academy of the Humanities Join us at this year's CHASS in Melbourne to explore what it means to define, contest and safeguard academic freedom in the 21st century.

This time next week a whole host of AHA members will be speaking as part of the Aus Academy of the Humanities and CHASS' symposium on academic freedom. It's free and open to the public: register your attendance at the link! humanities.org.au/events/acade...

James Watson reviews ‘Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia’ by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social, Andrew Saniga and David Beynon
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

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Jason M. Gibson @jmgibson.bsky.social reviews ‘Clever Men: How Worlds Collided on the Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948’, by Martin Thomas @anu-chl.bsky.social

Allen & Unwin @allenandunwin.bsky.social

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Greg Ryan reviews ‘Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia’, by Matthew Allen
McGill-Queen’s University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

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New book reviews just published online 👀📚👏🏽
Matthew Ricketson reviews ‘Australian Newspapers in the Television Age, 1956–2006’, by Rodney Tiffen
Anthem Press @anthempress.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Mary Blight (Curtin), runner up of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the AHA conference. Read the judges’ citation below.
Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.

Congratulations to Zoe Smith (ANU), winner of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the annual AHA conference @austhistassoc.bsky.social Thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social for supporting the prize. Read the judges’ citation below

Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social reviews ‘Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism, and the Archive’, by Anthea Taylor
Published by Routledge
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Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social reviews ‘The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and Its Afterlives’ by Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles and Jonathan Richards.
@anupress.bsky.social
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Our Nov issue is up, guest ed is Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social it’s devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia. It’s also the final issue for outgoing eds Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley–thanks for your excellent stewardship these last four years
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Published online ahead-of-print an article by Zoë Laidlaw, ‘Capital, Agents and Absentees: Port Phillip Pastoralism and the Profits of Slavery’. It's also freely available via open access - abstract below.
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‘It’s upside down, as nearly everything is these days’. Mr Squiggle and Friends, National Museum of Australia Published in Australian Historical Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Artie McCarthy reviews the exhibition 'Mr Squiggle and Friends: The Creative World of Norman Hetherington', National Museum of Australia, Canberra. It's free to read for 3-mths, thanks to the journal's publisher Taylor & Francis @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Cameron Logan @cameronlogan.bsky.social reviews, 'Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner', by Alana Piper
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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Mark Finnane reviews, 'The Last Outlaws: The Crimes of Jimmy & Joe Governor and the Birth of Modern Australia', by Katherine Biber
Scribner @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
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Nolan: For the Term of His Natural Life. Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, 10 August 2024–23 February 2025 Published in Australian Historical Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Matthew Cunneen reviews the exhibition, ‘Nolan: For the Term of His Natural Life’, at Canberra Museum and Gallery. A reminder that exhibition reviews are free to read for 3-mths from online publication date, thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Published online, an open access article by Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social ‘1975: Working Migrant Women’. It's part of a guest-edited special issue due out in May 2026, ‘Fifty Years On: Rethinking the Legacies of Australia’s International Women’s Year (1975)’. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Kate Ariotti reviews ‘Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45’ by Joan Beaumont
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Bowyer reviews ‘Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific 1880–1920’ by Kate Stevens
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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More book reviews published online ahead of print - first up, David A. Roberts reviews ‘Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales’ by Stephen Gapps
@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Geraldine Fela, winner of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History for her book, 'Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia's AIDS Crisis'. Read Shirleene Robinson's review in AHS here,
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CLOSING NEXT WEEK - submit your entry by Tuesday 30 September to be in the running for the Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize.
Did you present a paper at the AHA conference in July? Email it to us: ahs-history@unimelb.edu.au
See the pinned post for more details.

Rachel Franks @cfwriter.bsky.social reviews ‘Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer, and Her Criminal Son’ by Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex @lucysussex.bsky.social
La Trobe University Press

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Richard Waterhouse reviews, ‘We Are a Farming Class’: Dubbo’s Hinterland, 1870–1950, by Peter Woodley
@anupress.bsky.social

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