VIDA Commissioning Editor and PhD candidate Michael Stockwell launches a new blog series that reflects on topics seen as vulnerable to a systematic reversal of social justice gains amid today’s global political climate. The year 2026 has become a year … Continue reading
In this blog, the Australian Women’s History Network remembers pioneering Australian historian Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders AO, FASSA, FRHistS (1947–2026). Below, the Australian Women’s History network shares reflections about the remarkable life of pioneering Australian historian Kay Saunders from her … Continue reading
In this blog for the Environment and Gender series, Susan Broomhall discusses the history of Indigenous women’s knowledges and botanical collecting. In 2025, I edited a Themed Issue of Australian Historical Studies exploring how gender ideologies have shaped management of … Continue reading
James Keating and Paige Donaghy present a selection of undergraduate research on the history of gender and sexuality from final-year history students at The University of Melbourne. Each year in Making History, the University of Melbourne’s final year capstone unit, … Continue reading
In this blog, Commissioning Editor Michael Stockwell reviews a new edited collection about the feminist academic blog, Nursing Clio, edited by the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective. The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice is a bold anthology, … Continue reading
In this blog, Dr Kate McAnelly discusses the historic institutionalisation of women at Aotearoa New Zealand’s Seacliff Lunatic Asylum/Mental Hospital. Earlier this year, I wrote a blog about the ways in which ‘refrigerator mother theory’ was weaponised to vilify the … Continue reading
Vera Mackie joins Michelle Arrow and Zora Simic in commemorating fifty years of Anne Summers’ 1975 book, Damned Whores and God’s Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia. In November 1975 – fifty years ago – Anne Summers published her … Continue reading
In this blog, Michael Stockwell explores the intersection between the Lutheran Two-Kingdoms Paradox and Rural Fundamentalism and its impact on Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s approach to politics. “It must be admitted the Government have a responsibility to protect the people against … Continue reading
In this blog, Kaitlin Mills explores the higher learning available to women in Britain during the nineteenth century and how these opportunities varied drastically between the classes. Higher learning, in the context of nineteenth-century Britain’s educational opportunities, was education completed … Continue reading
In this blog, Andrea Gaynor expands on the themes of her keynote at the 2025 Australian Historical Association Conference. As tree-planting season wound up in southern Australia and the pottiputkis were put away, the warming weather brought new growth and … Continue reading