Annabel Cooper reviews ‘Caught on Screen: Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television’ by James Findlay. Published by Bloomsbury.
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Ross Webb reviews ‘Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand’ by Lyndy McIntyre. Published by Otago University Press.
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Lorinda Cramer reviews ‘Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War’ by Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw. Published by Rowman & Littlefield.
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Michael Belgrave reviews ‘The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860’, by Erik Olssen. Published by Auckland University Press
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Leonard Janiszewski reviews ‘Ikarians in South Australia, 1900–1945: Emigration, Settlement, Community Building and Integration’, by Yianni (John) Cartledge. Published by Anthem Press
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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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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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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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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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