James Keating
@jameskeating.bsky.social
📖 Historian of suffrage, feminism and internationalism | 🖊️ Distant Sisters (MUP, 2020) | @ahsjournal.bsky.social Book Review Editor | he/him
to all media folks saying Everything is Gender and “gender studies” re: the grotesque sexual and domestic violence of powerful men: Yes. now let’s actually talk about how to support research and writing in the field and feminist work in media. saying “gender” is not enough.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d ago
Great article from @jonpiccini.bsky.social theconversation.com/white-austra...
‘White Australia’ has always been a myth. Hanson lamenting its end is wrong – and dangerous
Australians have every reason to be angry at our political elites. But Hanson’s nostalgic and false history does not hold the answer.
theconversation.com
The PM today said he will allow government data to be consumed by US AI companies which raises real questions of consent, privacy and surveillance risk for every Australian. It's hard to see how that's in the public interest.
The historian and the computer: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie tries out the first computer to be introduced to the catalogue room of the Bibliothèque nationale de France on the rue de Richelieu in February 1988 🗃️
Good news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.
Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social · 4w agoEThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored
I remain very enamored with this piece about a Black suffragette from my hometown of Tacoma, Washington
Contingent Magazine@contingent-mag.bsky.social · last mo.
In July 2026, we'll celebrate 10 years of VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women's History Network! Join to hear the managing editors and editorial team, as well as authors and students, reflect on the blog's origins and transformation over the past decade. Register here ⬇️ events.humanitix.com/vida-10
VIDA @ 10: Celebrating a decade of the Australian Women’s History Network’s blog
Come together to celebrate VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network @ 10!
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'Hope is not a nice-to-have, it's an essential aspect of leading.' Also applies to large organisations, including universities.
Andy Burnham and the search for hope in a hopeless Britain
The alternative is despair and the uglier politics that heralds
ft.com
My latest pub article is here -ending with mention of my new book ‘The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign in 100 Objects’ from @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NJZYM...
Woman and Her Sphere: niche bookselling: niche research
This Viewpoint looks back at the quirks of fate that, over forty years ago, led its author to become a seller of women-centred books and then to a parallel career as an historian of the British wom...
tandfonline.com
The entire history of the women’s suffrage campaign - 1866 to 1928 - suffragists and suffragettes - from petitions to bombings - is set out v succinctly in my new book The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign in 100 Objects, published @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social 23 July. No excuse not know this history
Natasha Walter@natashawalter.bsky.social · 2mo agoI find it extraordinary and truly infuriating that the judges could say this. How can radical histories be so completely misunderstood, generation after generation, even by - or especially by - those in positions of power?
A small thread on my new book to be published open access on August 17th, 2026 with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social🧵1/ www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...
Between Global Standards and Unequal Treatment
This book investigates the development and impact of racialised labour policies and discourses within the International Labour Organization (ILO) from its founding in 1919 to the late 1950s. Drawing o...
degruyterbrill.com
A question for historians, what is/are your favourite book(s) of history and why? (This doesn't necessarily have to be a book in your immediate field of research; just something that comes closest to matching what you think a good work of history is or should be?) 🗃️
Oooh what's that on the cover? Is that... blackberry rust (Phragmidium violaceum)? I bet there's a really interesting article on that particular fungus in this edition!...!
History Australia@historyaustralia.bsky.social · 2mo agoHistory Australia 23(2) has just dropped. Time to grab a ☕ and dig in. Browse the full issue 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/c...
A new instalment of "Past/Present" in The Guardian is live! Follow the link to read AHA member Alison Downham Moore explore how treating women as legitimate historical narrators and witnesses might help counter medical misogyny. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If we are to counter medical misogyny, women can no longer be treated as unreliable witnesses of their own experience | Alison Downham Moore
The history of gynaecology fuses innovation, authority and violation – and radical surgery is not the unavoidable answer to suffering
theguardian.com
It's part of a wonderful special edition to mark the 125th anniversary of Australia's formative Immigration Restriction Act, organised by @baibi.bsky.social @drjpersian.bsky.social & Karen Schamberger, & available open access thanks to @unipotsdam.bsky.social
Very happy to have published an article on one of my minor obsessions - the long(er) history of the very present practice of fining shipping companies as a way of enforcing state borders: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Shipping Companies as Border Guards: Financial Penalties and Outsourced Immigration Control
This article describes an important but hidden tool through which Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act, and thus the White Australia policy, was enforced: the fines that were issued to captains,...
tandfonline.com
History Australia 23(2) has just dropped. Time to grab a ☕ and dig in. Browse the full issue 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/c...
Vale Professor Kay Saunders AO - an extraordinary groundbreaking Australian historian. Thank you to Dr Ana Stevenson & all at @auswhn.bsky.social for the opportunity to remember her & to the other historians who share such beautiful memories too #aushist www.auswhn.com.au/blog/remembe...
Remembering Kay Saunders (1947-2026) | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Shirleene Robinson and the Australian Women's History Network remember Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders, AO, FASSA, FRHistS (1947–2026).
auswhn.com.au
RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century
It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2
🚨New article klaxon🚨 Surveys, Maps, and Local Intermediaries in the Colonial Knowing of British New Guinea, 1884–1901. The Journal of Pacific History, 1–35. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
Surveys, Maps, and Local Intermediaries in the Colonial Knowing of British New Guinea, 1884–1901
Following the establishment of a British protectorate in southeastern New Guinea in 1884, the imperial and several Australian colonial governments published detailed geographical and social informa...
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