Category Archives: Lilith

Japanese Businesswomen in North Queensland’s Commercial Landscape, 1887-1941

by Managing Editor Posted on January 31, 2023

If you venture into the heat and humidity of North Queensland, you won’t only find a history of Japanese migrants. You will also uncover unexpected stories of independent and mobile Japanese businesswomen. When I began researching the Japanese migrants in … Continue reading →

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Recipe Exchange and Women’s Kinship Networks in Ascendancy Ireland

by Managing Editor Posted on December 15, 2021

From the late seventeenth century, women of the elite classes in Ireland began to share culinary and medicinal information with loved ones across the country and, frequently, across the Irish Sea. Over the course of the Ascendancy period recipe sharing became … Continue reading →

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Finding the women in the South Australian Field Naturalists

by Managing Editor Posted on December 15, 2021

Almost three years ago I decided to write an academic history article. I’d always been intrigued by a story I had written about in my Honours thesis thirty years previously. It was about the South Australian Fauna and Flora Protection … Continue reading →

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Wine, women’s magazines and consumer culture

by Managing Editor Posted on December 15, 2021

Consumption figures confirm that Australia became a wine-drinking country in the 1970s. The groundwork for the shift from beer drinking to wine consumption though was laid in the 1950s. Beginning in August 1955, the Wine Overseas Marketing Board mounted a … Continue reading →

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Women’s Grass-roots Activism

by Managing Editor Posted on December 15, 2021

A decade ago, I began researching Millicent Preston Stanley (1883-1955), the first woman elected to the NSW parliament (1925-1927). My initial focus was on the dramatic strategies of her feminist campaigns such as the ‘Horses Rights for Women’ demand for … Continue reading →

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Coercing British women and girls into domestic service, 1918-1928

by Managing Editor Posted on November 6, 2020

Elmarí Whyte explores how British women and girls were coerced into domestic service in the 1920s, and the role of working-class parents in that coercion. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available … Continue reading →