Alana Piper’s book Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner has recently been published by NewSouth. In this blog, Alana reveals the histories of some of the women whose lives are associated with 262 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, and its surrounds. … Continue reading
In this blog, Mark Masterson explores the history of homoeroticism in histories from the tenth-century Byzantine empire. Sources from the tenth-century Byzantine empire give us glimpses of a culture of homoeroticism. Men, who were attractive to other men, got ahead … Continue reading
Malcolm Allbrook and Michelle Staff introduce a new blog series showcasing articles from the Australian Journal of Biography and History no. 8 (2024), available open access via ANU Press. Barbara Caine,1994. The Australian Journal of Biography and History (AJBH) was … Continue reading
In this blog for “Premodern Gender”, Tyler Horton explains the tensions between gender, power and legitimate rule that early modern monarchs faced. In the early modern period, the strength of the monarchy was fundamentally built on ideas of divine right … Continue reading
Ashleigh McNamara explores how maternity and poverty intersected in early modern English cases of infanticide. In December of 1680, Margaret Adams was executed for the crime of infanticide at Tyburn Tree, London. According to the court records, she had concealed … Continue reading
Matthew Firth begins the “Premodern Gender” series by discussing the history of England’s little known early royal women. The tenth century was a transformative period in English history. At the start of the century, what would come to be the … Continue reading
Managing Co-Editor Paige Donaghy introduces a new blog series on gender in the medieval and early modern world. In 1620, an unknown English writer published a pamphlet in London with the following title: Hic Mulier, or The Man-Woman. The provocatively-titled work … Continue reading
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
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
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