Jamini Sen: The Bengali doctor who made medical history in Britain In 1912, Jamini Sen became the first woman Fellow of Glasgow’s Royal College, founded in 1599 and long closed to women.

Another forgotten story of an amazing woman - now recovered in a biography by her great-niece. She qualified at Kolkata Medical College, became physician to the royal household in Nepal, &
the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A stack of new history books in front of a window

Exciting new book haul this week!

Always here for any use of Sufjan Stevens!!!

Congratulations Mia! Amazing feat!

Thanks Jo!!

What an incredible family connection!!

Contents | Labour History 129, This article analyses the history of the travelling Chinese amahs (nursemaids) that came to Britain with employer families. Chinese amahs were engaged to care for children on voyages from Singapore, Hong Kong and China to London from the mid-nineteenth ...

Check out the rest of the special issue here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...

I’m delighted to share that my first journal article has been published in the special issue 'Labour Archives and Methodologies' of Labour History.

Honoured to have this piece included alongside such distinguished work: doi.org/10.3828/labo...

This text is taken from the Jan-June 2026 UNSW Press catalogue (too much to fit in this box) - https://unsw.press/catalogues/

Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.

Know anyone who would want to come work with me? 1 year position for someone with a HASS background (don’t need to be a programmer), working on a tool to search historical documents like colonial Hansard. unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

Oh this looks so good! Wish I could move to Melbourne 🥲

A great example of innovative storytelling!

Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research Generative AI is known to mirror sexist and racist stereotypes, but it also carries a colonial bias that is reinforcing outdated ideas about the past.

Help, the bot I fed on racism has turned out to be a racist. theconversation.com/historical-i...

Ah, wish this was online!!

Fabulous photo!

If any historians would like to review the following, please get in touch!
* 'Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country' exhibition at the Museum of Sydney
* 'Australia: an unofficial history' (SBS series)
* 'Chinese Australian Whispers' podcast

Oh, this looks fabulous! Need to read ASAP

Help us reach our target of 5000 signatures - please sign and share!

What an incredible photograph!

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…

We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Cover image of the Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 87, number 2. "Paintings, Peepshows, and Porcupines: Exhibitions in London, 1763-1851." The journal's name and issue information are on an earth-colored banner above an artistic depiction of museum visitors.

New HLQ special issue. What counts as an exhibition? As art? As respectable or "high" art? How did colonialism, empire, and race shape artistic production, display, and consumption? #arthistory #skystorians #BritishArt nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

This looks fabulous! I look forward to reading!

I love my fabulous HIST1051 colleagues!

Hi Beatriz! Did you know if your talk will be recorded? The timing is a bit unfortunate here in Australia 😅

Ah, I came here to ask the same question as Shirin. Guess I'll have to wait for that article. Sounds fabulous!

Gaza is starving! Sanction Israel NOW

“This case affirms a powerful truth: that voices of descendants matter, that oral histories passed down through the generations of Black families carry weight and wisdom”

Critical Mental Health in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand This interdisciplinary volume examines the social production of mental health and illness in Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Our co-edited book has been published in Palgrave's Politics of Mental Health and Illness series (edited by Bruce M.Z. Cohen), w chapters on Māori mental health, depathologisation of trans health, community mental health, digitalisation of mental health & more /1 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I'm in marking hell until the end of next week, but big yes after that! I definitely need a day of some focused writing.

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