Zara

Also we should talk about the piece from The Conversation about their own survey where they don’t release the survey itself so we can’t look at the methodology, sampling or even the results

You can’t do polling analysis and go ‘trust me bro’ as the source instead of a published poll

Vital journalism critically examining research results (rather than regurgitating than without any thought for their validity)

That gender survey is BS. Gen Z men where???

That big scary survey about Gen Z men being more regressive than Boomers is so flawed. An image of young men is being manufactured in the media and we should be very concerned about that.

Why do pollsters keep doing this???

My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA.

I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation!

#18thc #17thc #earlymodern

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

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14. Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher

An original and compelling exploration of childhood, play and imagination in Australia between the 1890s and World War II.

13. Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann

A fascinating historical non-fiction that examines the experiences of Black men and women in England during the Tudor period.

🧵: Books by historians I constantly recommend in policy meetings / professional contexts. In no order, to be added to when I remember:

1. The Seventies, by @michellearrow.bsky.social . Stuff can change, and it's possible to believe in things and plan for the future. unsw.press/books/the-se...

Youth Defence, young people and anti-abortion activism in Ireland, c.1992–97 This article explores the first five years of the Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. Using newspaper articles and archival sources, I illustrate how the group effectively mobil...

I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Meantime, four of the eight experts appointed to the expert advisory group have left. Our Watch chief executive Patty Kinnersly is no longer chair but is still part of the group. The department has not published communiqués from the group’s past two meetings."

History Australia 23(1) out now!
“Happy reading and bon courage for 2026”
www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/c...

Read History Workshop Journal's 100th Issue.

History Workshop Journal just published its 100th issue—a landmark celebration of critical, community-driven history!

From archival recoveries to new interpretations of protest, gender, & empire, HWJ reshapes how we think about the past: oxford.ly/46iUcd2 @historyworkshop.org.uk

Women’s pain and psychogenic diagnoses - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Healthcare providers often rely on the following sort of concerning reasoning when encountering patients with difficult-to-explain symptoms: in the absence of evidence for a physical cause, the sympto...

Our paper about women's pain and psychogenic diagnoses is now out: doi.org/10.1007/s110...

12. Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell

A compelling and devastating illustration of a young mother escaping an abusive marriage in Ireland. Nesting examines the compounding traumas of domestic & family violence. The prose is delicate, tender & gut-wrenching: you viscerally feel fear & dread while reading.

11. Matrix by Lauren Groff

A tender and poetic portrayal of the Middle Ages with a specific focus on religious life. With protagonist Marie thrown out of court life & made prioress of an abbey Groff utilises her leadership & spirituality to subvert medieval notions of gender and sexuality.

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

Former ACT commissioner alleges sexual assault and harassment Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts says she stepped down as the ACT's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner to prioritise her safety after being subjected to sexual harassment and sexual assault by a public servant.

Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts says she stepped down as the ACT's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner to prioritise her safety after being subjected to sexual harassment and sexual assault by a public servant.

10. Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Through the entangled lives of a young journalist Hannah and a senior academic Ashraf, Discipline examines the personal and professional costs of speaking up about Palestine & simultaneously exposes the violence of institutions in the face in justice.

9. Rapture by Emily Maguire

Set in ninth-century Mainz, a young girl Agnes, the daughter of an English priest, seeks to find her place in society outside the socially acceptable roles for women as either a nun or wife and mother.

Please do Kate! To add to existing comments I always found AHA conferences as a PhD student an encouraging space to share your research.

Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945* Abstract. Thinking about and planning for the end of war generally begins as soon as fighting breaks out, if not long before. Yet few studies analyse how p

New article, by Frances M Clarke, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social, Reto Hofmann and Hans-Lukas Kieser: 'Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945'

academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Online Workshop - ANZSHM x Health & History

What is the peer review process and how do you deal with reviewer feedback?

February 26th 2025 @ 3pm AEDT (2pm AEST)

Zoom details:
lnkd.in/g77JzGdg...
Password: 534412

Health and History Journal: lnkd.in/gH8u3QJ6

8. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Rooney explores how after the death of their father brothers Peter and Ivan Koubek relationship with each other & their romantic interests were strained by grief & simultaneously tested by competing desires.

7. Women & Children by Tony Birch

A poignant historical fiction set in 1960s Melbourne, Women & Children bares witness to Australian society’s normalisation of domestic violence and racism as experienced through the eyes of a young boy.

Disabled and academic: a collaborative autoethnography on ableism and cruel optimism within Australian higher education Universities are celebrated as bastions of teaching, knowledge and research excellence, but they can pose risks to staff psychosocial safety and wellbeing. In Australia and elsewhere, we are increa...

Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...

Even the most famous victims are silenced From the Epstein files to Amber Heard, we obsess over victims while denying their own right to speak.

I wrote about how the women Epstein and co victimized have been minimized and ignored as individuals even in popular discourse about the very abuse they endured—and how the legal system has punished them and other women, not helped them, for daring to come forward.
spitfirenews.com/p/even-the-m...

👏 Hope you enjoy!

6. Cape Fever by Nadia Davids

A compelling historical fiction set in an unnamed small city within the British empire during the 1920s. Davids utilises gothic conventions to unsettlingly reveal the long haunts of colonial power, racial prejudices and the Great War on South African society.

Congrats Simon on a great article 👏