Australian Historical Studies

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
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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
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Elizabeth Bowyer reviews ‘Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific 1880–1920’ by Kate Stevens
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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
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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
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Thomas Richardson reviews ‘Beyond the Broken Years: Australian Military History in 1000 Books’ by Peter Stanley @stanleyhistorian.bsky.social
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Published online ahead-of-print, a new article by Nicholas Pitt, ‘Smallpox on the Limits of Location: The Politics of Diagnosis in New South Wales, 1830–34’. It's also freely available to read via open access
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Published online ahead of print, a new article by Anna McMichael, Kate Murphy & Judith Healy, ‘Commerce and Culture: Music Emporia and Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia’.
It’s also open access
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Ken Inglis Postgrad Prize CLOSING SOON - 30 Sept.
Did you present a paper at the AHA conference? Tidy it up and email it to us at ahs-history@unimelb.edu.au
Read the flier for all the T&Cs. You might get published in the journal...good luck!

New article alert by Samuel Furphy ‘He Does Not Speak of Civilizing the Australians Now’: Matthew Moorhouse, Craniology, and Aboriginal Protection in South Australia, 1839–65.
It's also Open Access and published ahead-of-print.

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social reviews ‘The Southern Frontier: Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World’ by Rowan Howitt
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‬Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social ‪reviews ‘Enchantment by Birds: A History of Birdwatching in 22 Species’, by Russell McGregor
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Michelle Arrow, Anna Clark and Frank Bongiorno’s co-authored piece in The Conversation. @michellearrow.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @ouranu.bsky.social @utsengage.bsky.social #MacquarieUniversity

Raelene Frances reviews 'Untold Intimacies: A History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978–2008' by Cheryl Ware @cherylware.bsky.social
Published by Auckland University Press

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Say Our Name: Australian South Sea Islanders. Queensland Museum, Brisbane. October 2024–July 2025 Published in Australian Historical Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Max Quanchi reviews the exhibition 'Say Our Name: Australian South Sea Islanders. Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Oct 2024–July 2025'
AHS exhibition reviews are open access for three months, so share the link

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Rachel Standfield & Katherine Ellinghaus review 'Too Far Out: An Administrative History of the Ngaanyatjarra Homelands' by Max Angus
Hesperian Press
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Bridget Brooklyn reviews 'A Battle-Axe in the Bear Pit: Millicent Preston Stanley MP', by Wendy Michaels.
A timely review as May 2025 marked 100 years since Millicent Preston-Stanley became NSW’s first female MP.
Published by Connor Court
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Ken Inglis Postgrad Prize - closes 30 Sept.
Did you present a paper at the AHA conference? If so then read the flyer below for all the details. Email any inquiries and submissions to ahs-history@unimelb.edu.au
Good luck 👏

Published online ahead of print, an article by S.J. Gale, ‘Leaving for Port Jackson: The First Fleet’s Abandonment of Botany Bay’. Abstract below. It’s also open access so freely available for anyone to read
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Thanks for sharing @alanlester.bsky.social Yes, it is a shame that book reviews and many articles are behind a paywall or require institutional library access. Thanks for your excellent and considered review, as always 👏

Top image: ‘Members of the Wallaby Club at Grand Hotel, Yarra Glen, Victoria, 27 October 1899’. Wallaby Club Collection, University of Melbourne Archives. Bottom image: ‘Outside Tawonga Hut’. Melbourne Women’s Walking Club members pose during a Christmas walking trip in 1928. YMS 15464 Box 17, Records of the Melbourne Women’s Walking Club, State Library of Victoria.

While the 8 articles in our August issue (56.3) have been online for a while, they’re now collected under an editorial by Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley. The issue also includes an exhibition review & 15 book reviews. Take a look 👀📑👏
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Richard White reviews 'Colonial Adventure', by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
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