In this blog, Margaret Allen remembers Emeritus Professor Alison MacKinnon, AO, FASSA (1941–2025). In April 2025, we lost Alison MacKinnon AO, FASSA , Professor Emerita of the University of South Australia (UniSA), a noted feminist historian of education, who was … Continue reading
In this blog, Vera Mackie and the Australian Women’s History Network remember Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan, AO, FAHA (1943–2024). We were saddened to hear one year ago of the passing of Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan, AO, FAHA (1943–2024). Ryan was … Continue reading
The new convenors of the Australian Women’s History Network reflect on the challenges and opportunities for the network in the year ahead. As 2018 drew to a close, responsibility for convening the activities of the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) … Continue reading
VIDA blog Managing Editors Ana Stevenson and Alana Piper reflect on the year and share VIDA’s Top 10 posts for 2018. The year 2018 has been another exciting one for us at VIDA blog. In July, we celebrated our second … Continue reading
VIDA blog Managing Editors Ana Stevenson and Alana Piper reflect on the year and share VIDA’s Top 10 posts for 2017. The year 2017 has been another exciting one for us at VIDA blog. We turned one year old in … Continue reading
VIDA recently appointed a pair of talented postgraduate students – Georgina Rychner and Marama Whyte – as assistant editors to help administer the blog. Read more about them below. Since VIDA launched in July 2016 it has posted over a … Continue reading
VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network invites applications from Australasian postgraduate students for an exciting new initiative: postgraduate editorial assistants. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of VIDA blog in July 2017, we are seeking up to two postgraduate editorial assistants to … Continue reading
Australian Women’s History Network convenors Jordy Silverstein and Mary Tomsic reflect on 2016 and what is to come for the network, historians and the world in 2017. It’s hard to know how to summarise a year in the life of … Continue reading
In 2017, VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network will be participating in the Australian Women Writers Challenge. The AWW challenge was set up to help overcome gender bias in the reviewing of books by Australian women. The challenge … Continue reading
VIDA blog Managing Editors Ana Stevenson and Alana Piper reflect on the year and share VIDA’s Top 10 posts for 2016. 2016 in review As we come to the end of the year, we at VIDA wanted to reflect on the … Continue reading