In this blog, Paula Jane Byrne explores the relationship between women’s sewing and resistance through the work of Rose Selwyn. When I was a graduate student my supervisor, the feminist historian Beverley Kingston used to bring her sewing or knitting … Continue reading
In this blog, authors Eli Branagh and Taylah Evans discuss their experience hosting ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’, a one-day symposium held in response to the recently published Personal Politics: The Remaking of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2024). In … Continue reading
In this blog, Abbie Hartman explores the impression of women’s history given through video games and its impact on informal education. Video games have a problem with women. Or, more accurately, video games about history are particularly prone to replicate … Continue reading
Margaret Allen reflects on an exhibition and research project exploring the academic working lives of women in South Australia since 1970. The Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at the University of Adelaide has been researching the working lives … Continue reading
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, Tanya Fitzgerald explores the history of women’s access to higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand across the end of the nineteenth century. In July 1877 amidst much fanfare witnessed by approximately 1,000 invited guests, Kate Milligan Edger … Continue reading
Kerrie Saunders and Margaret Cook explore Kamilaroi women’s knowledge of nature, country and history. We are Kerrie Saunders, a Kamilaroi woman from Moree, New South Wales, and Margaret Cook, a non-First Nations historian from Ipswich, Queensland. We share a dream … Continue reading
In this blog, Judith Brett shares her experiences writing the biography of Australian author and women’s activist Beatrice Faust. As a political historian, I have always included women’s experience in the stories I am telling, but before this book I … Continue reading
Bridget Brooklyn explores the historical relationships between eugenics and feminist movements in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Australia. From the time of the suffrage campaigns, many feminist claims to equality drew on the essentialist beliefs enshrined in ‘separate spheres’ ideology. They argued … Continue reading
In this blog, prominent LGBTQIA+ Rights Activist Bill Rutkin (OAM) and Contributing Editor Michael Stockwell explore how Queensland’s gay community flouted convention and defied the odds to hold the world’s longest running LGBTQIA+ event, the Queens Ball. DRAG HISTORY IN … Continue reading