Rebecca Louise Clarke considers how the maternal experience is shared and archived in today’s digital museum spaces. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available now on open access here. The merging of … Continue reading
Toni Church explores how popular understandings of the past can be deepened and transformed by enlivening how colonial women are represented in curatorial language and physical embodiments in Australian museums and galleries. This post is based on an article that appears … Continue reading
Jennifer Caligari examines how temperance and suffrage activist Bessie Harrison Lee used the theatrics of protest to promote her agenda. This post is based on an article that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available now on open access here. … Continue reading
Rachel Harris and Michelle Staff reflect on the year’s events to date, and what it means for the future of feminism and feminist historians. This article is based on the editorial that appears in the 2020 issue of Lilith, available … Continue reading
Marian Quartly reflects upon historian Jill Roe’s book Searching for the Spirit: Theosophy in Australia, 1879-1939, upon its recent republication. Jill Roe, described on her death as ‘one of Australia’s greatest historians’, is best remembered for her internationally acclaimed biography of … Continue reading
An Australian Women’s History Network roundtable responds to the federal government’s proposed cost increase to degrees in the Humanities. There is much joy to be found in Chaucer Doth Tweet, a Twitter account which pays loving homage to the early modern … Continue reading
VIDA blog editors Ana Stevenson and Alana Piper reflect on the June 2020 History Australia forum, “Doing History in Urgent Times.” The editors of a new History Australia forum have poignantly summoned their colleagues to “articulate what this moment demands … Continue reading
Mark Finnane, Andy Kaladelfos and Susanne Karstedt explore the long history of femicide and ask why violence against women has not declined. The recent murders of Hannah Clarke and her three children at Camp Hill demonstrate once again the persistence … Continue reading
Martyn Brown revisits New Zealand’s official history of World War II to understand how and why Cretan women have been elided from the historical memory. Beginning in the 1940s, New Zealand undertook a massive post-war project of writing an official … Continue reading
Vera Mackie, Nicola J. Marks and Sarah Ferber reveal some of the stories that make up the global history of IVF and assisted reproduction. Candice Reed was born on 23 June 1980 in Melbourne. She was conceived through in vitro … Continue reading