Thanks to @mpsheritage.bsky.social I think I may have identified an original Sylvia Pankhurst artwork. Altho' for licensing agreement the pic below isn't the original - but to unravel the mystery read on...
womanandhersphere.com/2026/04/17/s...
academia trying to regulate the use of ai
A fine chestnut thoroughbred, plaited up and looking beautiful, captured mid-air over a white showjump. His rider (it's me!) is wearing formal attire: helmet, green coat, cream jodhpurs and long black boots. She looks a bit worried (she always did, that horse was a handful!)
I’m a rider, a horse lover & owner. Yes that's me in the pic. So I was rapt to discover, as part of my biographical research, that my subject was a skilled equestrienne. For a little more about the horsey adventures of Louisa Lawson (1848-1920) try: michellescotttucker.com/louisa-lawso...
#biography
My first interview promoting my upcoming biography about acclaimed journalist Wallace Terry, set for release October 6 by the @unmpress.bsky.social.
youtu.be/fVpGx40x940?...
The problem is e-motorbikes. But macho culture likes motorbikes. So we don't focus on those; the actual problem.
Instead, we scapegoat e-bikes. We scapegoat options that expand mobility and encourage active transport.
Car-brain, indeed.
Along with not demanding fairer pay and conditions, the least those ABC layabouts could do is have the decency to day drink at an *unpopular* Sydney pub.
As someone raised on both sides of the ditch, I have a mental list of words from either/both Australian and NZ English that I have used without thinking about it in formal contexts but which go largely unrecognised in other Englishes: fossick, rort, spruik, stoush, removalist, runholder
H.K. Watson (UAP), prominent secessionist, wanted to abolish the House of Reps altogether and give WA control over customs.
And they said Curtin was the radical one.
(He lost to W. Watson, his old nemesis, and that was nearly the end of his political career.)
At the 1931 election, John Curtin was up against two Watsons in the seat of Fremantle. William Watson (IND), the bacon baron, wanted the parliament to elect a cabinet & then be compulsorily retired, leaving the cabinet to handle everything.
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Libs running 4th or 5th in some seats, extraordinary.
It was great working with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social
on this. If you're interested, you can enrol for free! creds.curtin.edu.au/courses/john...
John Curtin at desk.
In my day job, I helped develop "John Curtin's Vision", a credential on the life & prime-ministership of Curtin Uni's namesake. I appear in some videos using objects he owned to tell the story of his life - his cut-throat razors, engraved pocket watch, file copies of the Worker.
A subtle profile of a biographer and a biographical relationship gone wrong for reasons unclear.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/b...
Vale Emeritus Professor Heather Goodall. Anna Clark has shared 'Remembering Heather Goodall (1950–2026)' with History Australia readers. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
Dig by Frank Clune cover
Dig title page
I was at Swan's Moonah Bookshop in Hobart today. It reminded me of the beloved book exchanges of my childhood, now nearly all gone in WA - it even had Phantoms and Commandos! I left with this.
You're welcome, Wayne, and so glad someone read our bibliography 😆
A few weeks back, as part of my #SLVResidency, I created a big, fully-searchable database with all the content from the 24 volumes of Sands & MacDougall's directories digitised by the SLV. I've finally written up the details: updates.timsherratt.org/2025/11/12/a-new-way-of-... […]
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
Wallace Stevens, born on this day in 1879
The SLV is digitising thousands of photos of streetscapes around Victoria created by the Committee for Urban Action in the 1970s. Here's some from Fitzroy: find.slv.vic.gov.au/discovery/search […]
Picture shows a book cover for Dangers of Youth
I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George Rudé Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Wonderful!
Good work!
I'll be speaking at this event: The 80th anniversary of World War II & the formation of the #UN United Nations. What have we learnt and what may the next 80 years hold? Join us at
@curtinuniversity.bsky.social tomorrow evening, brought to you by the Faculty of Humanities and #GlobalFutures Curtin.
Depressing news. Meanjin hardly posed a significant call on the University of Melbourne's finances: its annual budget was no more than a third of the VC's salary. To shut it down diminishes the University of Melbourne and leaves a large hole in Australia's already threadbare cultural landscape
The Egg, a cricket trophy awarded to the winners of Overland vs Meanjin matches, alongside a copy of Jim Davidson's Emperor in Lilliput, the book about magazine founding editors Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith.
Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.
Dr Samson Lim (Monash U) is giving the next seminar of the Historians of Southeast Asia Network (HiSEAs) on the 'feral territories' of Eastern Bangkok, Thailand. Intrigued? Join us on Thu 11 September, 4.00 pm AEST on Zoom:
anu.zoom.us/j/8293727404....
Meeting ID: 829 3727 4043/ Passcode:491526.
Anyone out there in #genealogy , #LocalHistory or #FamilyHistory land know of any collections that should be identified?
I've just had confirmation that Newcastle Writers Festival's partnership with Port Waratah Coal Services has ended. I'm pleased to hear this and hope this is an ongoing alignment of NWF's values with their actions. Fossil fuels are the villains and we don't need them to tell stories
