My latest in @theconversation.com: "Hanson’s recent comments are not an aberration. Her anti-feminist and pro-men’s rights beliefs have been as consistent over the last 30 years as her racism and stance on immigration. It’s clear that men’s rights is central to Hanson’s political project." #AusPol

Pauline Hanson was once dubbed ‘queen of the men’s rights movement’. Her 30-year career shows why

As consistent as her beliefs on race and immigration, Hanson has been championing men’s rights causes for 30 years – at the expense of women.

theconversation.com

Thesis 1:

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

Grzegorz Wróblewski, tr. Piotr Gwiazda

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

this is you in meta’s pervert glasses

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3w ago

BBC engineers built robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife at distances no human crew could ever get close enough to reach.

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 ago

EThOS 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.

Thank you Google maps for protecting the cow's privacy

Coming to a bookstore near you in February 2027.

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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Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

These women workers at a large Parisian department store – enveloped in one another's arms and pretending to be asleep during a strike in 1936 (Bibliothèque nationale de France) 🗃️

'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 ago

I 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 ago

History 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...

Commenting "this is grotesque" on every post in my linkedin feed

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