Suffrage Stories: The WSPU Illuminated Address. Is This Sylvia Pankhurst’s Original Design? Material owned by the Metropolitan Police Service Museum, licensed under the Metropolitan Police Service Non-Commercial Licence. (This image must not be reproduced without permission from the Metro…

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...
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Manchester University Press is proud to launch Radical Histories, a new series dedicated to the individuals, movements and ideas that have challenged political, social and cultural authority.

Call for proposals now open. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

Briony Neilson Briony Neilson Editorial and Manuscript Services – assisting writers and academic researchers through all stages of the writing and publishing process

I've been working as a freelance professional academic editor for over 15 years and have finally got around to creating a website. If you're an academic writer seeking experienced editorial help on a writing project (e.g. book, chapter, journal article), get in touch! And please spread the word ✏️📖

Job Ready Graduates requires urgent reform, but current proposal risks more university cuts – Australian Academy of the Humanities Job Ready Graduates requires urgent reform, but current proposal risks more university cuts, says the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Job Ready Graduates requires urgent reform, but the current proposal being considered by the Senate risks more university cuts, says the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Read more: humanities.org.au/news/job-rea...

This one is a reminder that:

1) for feminists, the woman-slave analogy is a net-negative rhetorical tool;

2) it’s a tool that’s all too easy for others to adopt; and

3) even before AI, history and historical memory could be mobilised uncritically.

The past is present.

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Job-ready Graduates has failed – a first step to fixing it is on the table The Job-ready Graduates reforms have increased student debt, failed to shift enrolments, and entrenched inequality across Australia’s higher education system.

The Job-ready Graduates reforms were meant to align degrees with workforce needs.
Instead they have increased debt, failed to shift student demand, and entrenched inequality, Adam Lucas and James Guthrie write.
#auspol #HigherEducation #Universities #EducationPolicy

Exclusive: Former ANU VC accused of ‘serious misconduct’ Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from the university and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no university qualifications.

Four months after her premature departure as vice-chancellor of the Australian National University, Genevieve Bell was suspended from her ongoing role as a distinguished professor and barred from entering the campus or speaking to staff. satpa.pe/2uSk0Zu

Thank you for your courage 🙏 we have walked parallel paths.

Snippet of the introduction’s title line, “The Material Conditions of Victorian Poetry,” with two versions of the phrase “Victorian Poetry” laid on top of one another. One version is not italicized and refers to the field of study. The other version is italicized and refers to the journal, which has undergone a series of seismic transitions as a direct result of the erosion of literary studies and higher ed.

A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685

If you also missed it, you can still read my article on mining giant Anglo American, and what they are leaving behind as they depart Southern Africa:

What an inspiring read from @lerikscline.bsky.social:

"So quit the AI pilot, quit the busywork created by the next administrative crisis, quit your job if that pushes the work forward, but don’t quit fighting. The #humanities we need is still ahead of us."

✊ The Womandla! Special Issue in Third World Quarterly is now online.

12 articles exploring feminist histories, activism & theory from across the Global South.
@drkatelaw.bsky.social 

📖 Free until end of April.
🔗 Read here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/47/2

#WomenInSTEM #academicsky

Making Gender History: Research from Melbourne Undergraduates | Australian Women's History Network James Keating and Paige Donaghy present a selection of undergraduate research on the history of gender and sexuality from final-year history students at The University of Melbourne.

New from VIDA:

🎉 James Keating (@jameskeating.bsky.social) & Paige Donaghy (@paigedonaghy.bsky.social) introduce a blog showcasing seven UniMelb undergraduate history projects 🎉

Read it here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/making-...

#hist #histaus #gendhist #histsex #IWD2026 #undergrad
@unimelb.edu.au

A statement on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association regarding James Hillier aka Nordacious and the QLD Government:

Conditions regarding protests: a response to the University of Melbourne - Overland literary journal What has been done cannot be undone. But a reversal of the current descent into barbarism begins with justice for Gaza. The University of Melbourne still has an opportunity to speak out against genoci...

“The university still has an opportunity to speak out against genocide and apartheid. It should do so.”

@jeffsparrow1.bsky.social responds to the call for feedback on the right to protest and the “iSurveillance Policy” at the University of Melbourne.

Zooming Out: WebinarTV’s Rampant Scraping of Online Meetings Zooming Out: WebinarTV’s Rampant Scraping of Online Meetings

I have been ready for zoom bombers, but this didn't occur to me. Here's a good description of how they work, not behind a paywall.

NEW on Wonkhe: The first phase of research culture reform has been about visibility. For Alys Kay, the next challenge is about ensuring that evidence is not just documented, but actually leads to changes in decisions wonkhe.com/blogs/univer...

Samuel Pepys had significant professional and social connections to transatlantic slavery in the years covered by his diary and afterwards, mediated by his involvement with two English slave-trading companies – the Royal African Company and the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa. He also owned and sold at least two enslaved people in London in the 1670s and 1680s. This article uses previously neglected manuscript evidence to reassess Pepys’s involvement in enslavement and his status as an enslaver. It emphasizes three themes: the relationship between Pepys’s official connections to the African companies and his private ownership of enslaved people; the development of his involvement in slavery within his extensive social and professional networks; and Pepys’s own agency in curating his official and personal archives to shape and limit our knowledge of his slave ownership. In doing so, it considers how the consciously expressed professional and ethical priorities of administrators and slave-owners like Pepys shaped the complex archival traces of slavery in England and erased the experiences and voices of enslaved people.

📣Out now on #firstview

Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689'

#Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

History Workshop Around the World How did the History Workshop movement in Britain find connections with radical history initiatives around the globe?

Since its inception, History Workshop has worked in tandem with radical projects across the world.

In this podcast episode, Rosa Campbell leads a discussion on the promise of public history in South Africa, Sweden and Japan.

Thrilled to see that the latest edition of @auswhn.bsky.social’s Lilith: A Feminist History Journal features not one – but two – book reviews by my PhD students! 📚

Congratulations Kaitlin Mills and Michael Stockwell 🤓

Exhibition to tell story of Punjabi princess and pioneering suffragette Sophia Duleep Singh The Last Princesses of Punjab opens on Thursday at Kensington Palace

Exhibition to tell story of Punjabi princess and pioneering suffragette Sophia Duleep Singh

Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org

religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

The impossible task of caring for ageing parents who did not care for you: ‘There’s a lot of reliving old triggers’ It’s hard under the best of circumstances. For those with difficult family relationships or estrangement, it’s even more complicated

The impossible task of caring for ageing parents who did not care for you: ‘There’s a lot of reliving old triggers’

Australia's universities have found themselves in crisis. But it has been decades in the making | Hannah Forsyth Rather than a set of teaching and learning relationships, universities have become a bunch of metrics to be gamed. Unwinding these systems will take effort

The Guardian has partnered with the Australian Historical Association to use history to explain stuff. Today I do the University crisis.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on More than 20,000 sq km of coast has succumbed to Australia’s first ever bloom of toxic Karenia cristata algae – and scientists worry it could explode again

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on

‘Women’s Section, Do Not Make Me Feel Like a Motherless Child!’ Politics, Care, and Welfare in ANC Women’s Experiences of Sweden This article uses oral history and auto/biographical sources to sketch a social history of exile in Sweden from the early 1960s until the early 1990s. Using voices belonging to women of the African...

🚨New article alert: What happened to the South African activists who lived in Sweden during the struggle against apartheid? I spoke to some of them, searched through archives in South Africa and Sweden, and wrote an article for South African Historical Journal. Open acess: doi.org/10.1080/0258...

The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective's The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Michael Stockwell reviews a new edited collection about the feminist academic blog, Nursing Clio, edited by the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective.

For IWD 2026, our wonderful Editorial Assistant Michael Stockwell has published a review of @nursingclio.bsky.social's excellent edited collection 💫

Read it below ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/nursing...

#IWD2026 #feministhistory #womenhistorymonth

The Academic Wheel of Privilege showing the 24 socio-cultural identities. The 24 socio-cultural identity types span six sectors: health and wellbeing, society, culture and communication, gender and sexuality, education and career, living arrangements and lastly childhood and development. These identity types are shown as circles connected to three concentric rings (outer, middle and inner) of “identity” circles with increasing privilege as you go towards the centre.

Out now!

The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡

We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions.

@saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...

International Women's Day 2026 Balance the Scales For All Women and Girls #BalanceTheScales #IWD2026 UN Women Australia

Every day is International Women's Day at the Australian Women's History Network!

To celebrate, check out our wealth of feminist, gender, and women's history at #VIDAblog 🚺 ⚧️

#IWD2026 #BalanceTheScales #RightsJusticeAction

Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/