A Cocktail of Academic Fervour and Dance Fever: My Experience of AHA 2024

by Managing Editor Posted on September 10, 2024

Australian Women’s History Network Travel Bursary recipient Meg Graham reflects on her experience of the 2024 Australian Historical Association Conference. This year’s Australian Historical Association Conference welcomed people and papers from around Australia and across the world to Kaurna Country … Continue reading →

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The Lavender Dollar: Australian Lesbians and Consumer Citizenship

by Managing Editor Posted on August 18, 2024

In this blog, Harriet Steele discusses the rise of lesbian consumer citizenship and the inclusionary power of the lavender dollar. In 1992, an anonymous letter to the editor of Lesbians on the Loose (LOTL), a prominent Sydney lesbian magazine, began … Continue reading →

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Brief report on the 2024 Australian Historical Association Conference

by Managing Editor Posted on July 26, 2024

Australian Women’s History Network Travel Bursary recipient Natasha Szuhan reflects on her experience of the 2024 Australian Historical Association Conference. The Australian Historical Association’s 2024 conference was held on the beautiful Bedford Park Campus of Flinders University, Adelaide. The theme … Continue reading →

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Join the National Convenors of the Australian Women’s History Network!

by Managing Editor Posted on June 27, 2024

Seeking Expressions of Interests for new National Convenors of the Australian Women’s History Network. The Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) is calling for Expression of Interest (EOIs) from those interested in joining the National Convenor team. We wish to build … Continue reading →

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‘Manly’ violence: rape, massacres, and white masculinity on the Queensland frontier

by Managing Editor Posted on June 24, 2024

Zoe Smith explores the history of the Hornet Bank Massacre in the context of white settler masculinity and sexual violence in colonial Australia. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this blog may contain the images and names of … Continue reading →

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Why should we challenge assumptions about second-wave feminism in Aotearoa New Zealand?

by Managing Editor Posted on May 24, 2024

Geena Carlisle explores the history of second-wave feminism in Aotearoa New Zealand, focusing on the exchanges and tensions between Māori and Pākehā women. In 1893, Aotearoa New Zealand became the first nation where women gained the right to vote and … Continue reading →

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‘Laborious learning or painful pondering’: Bluestockings and the Uses of History in Australian Higher Education Politics

by Managing Editor Posted on April 10, 2024

In this blog, Anna Temby explores the history and evolution of the Bluestocking philosophy from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. In the early 1980s, the Australian Union of Students (the precursor of the National Union of Students (NUS) established … Continue reading →

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