Who was Jane Walker? Remembering Women’s Activism

by Managing Editor Posted on June 5, 2019

Sharon Crozier-De Rosa and Vera Mackie explore the complex interconnections between the history of women’s activism and its memorialisation in the twenty-first century. In April 2019, Time Magazine released its annual list of the ‘100 most influential people’. Alongside such leaders … Continue reading →

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Sex smells: Olfaction, modernity and the regulation of women’s bodies

by Managing Editor Posted on May 22, 2019

Alecia Simmonds explores how the way women’s bodies smell has been regulated across time. Is there anything more regulated than a woman’s body? Plucked, shaved, waxed, bleached, vajazzled, starved, toned, tanned, botoxed, implanted, pulled up, pushed out and underwired within … Continue reading →

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Reflections on writing about education in the nineteenth-century British Empire

by Managing Editor Posted on April 3, 2019

‘Who was colonial education for?’ Rebecca Swartz asks, in her new book about education across the British Empire, from South Africa to Western Australia. I have recently come to the end of what feels like a long journey, beginning with the … Continue reading →

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A “poor puny thing”: Giuseppe Baretti and rhetorical violence against political women

by Managing Editor Posted on March 8, 2019

Shane Greentree finds resonances between Giuseppe Baretti’s didactic text Easy Phraseology for the use of young ladies… (1775) and violent political rhetoric against contemporary women. The republican historian and political philosopher Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791) was among the most discussed women writers of her … Continue reading →

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Digital community mothering: how migrant mothers in Australia build community on Facebook

by Managing Editor Posted on February 4, 2019

Leah Williams Veazey explores the intersections of migration, motherhood, and digital cultures in contemporary Australia. Migration and motherhood are both significant life changes. They disrupt social infrastructures, requiring the rapid acquisition of new knowledge and new networks, and the renegotiation … Continue reading →

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Stirring the Pot: Speculating with fragments & informing the imagination

by Managing Editor Posted on January 23, 2019

Kiera Lindsey explores the role of imagination in the historical research process as part of her DECRA speculative biographical project on the colonial female artist Adelaide Ironside. Most historians can recall an exhilarating moment in the archives when a reference … Continue reading →

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