On 24 October, Peter Hobbins will deliver the 2024 R. Ian Jack Annual Memorial Lecture. The presentation will start at 7.30 pm in St Andrew's New Church Hall in West Market Street, Richmond. For details, see hawkesburyhistoricalsociety.org

It's #MelbourneFashionWeek next week! To celebrate, here are our PROV fashion favourites with styles including matching suits, permed hair, chunky earrings, white dresses, athleisure wear and more. 📸 Various from our PTC, Harbour Trust and Olympics series. #FashionFriday

The cycle of drought and flooding rains provides a dramatic stage for the history of environmental change in the Murray Darling Basin. Don't miss your chance to delve into this story with our speaker @kt_holmes38 at the 2024 HCV Annual Lecture. 🔗Book: tinyurl.com/3r79xpvb

Dr Evan Smith (Evan is not really here) has recently taken up the role as book reviews editor. If you are interested in reviewing a recently published book on British colonial and imperial history (broadly defined), please contact him at evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au.

Applications close TODAY! Come and work with the AHA’s awesome President Michelle Arrow, terrific Executive Committee and wonderful community of 950 historians, GLAM sector workers, teachers and more! Position description and details below! @HistAustJournal AustHistAssoc ECRs

The CFP deadline for our Adelaide conference has been extended! 👇📚🖊️

History Fest for #HistoryMonth2024 brings together local historical societies, objects valuers and conservers, and explores the history of Kingston and its people. 26 October 10am-4pm. -TO historymonth.org.au/event/history-…

Huge congratulations to Liam Byrne for writing this book alongside all this hands on work in the labour movement. Amid a crisis of growing inequality, unions are as vital as they have ever been.

Call for Papers! 📢 Schools of Empire Project and Institute of Historical Research are hosting a one-day research conference on 20 June 2025 in London and warmly invite proposals for research papers. Deadline: 15 January 2025 More information: royalhistsoc.org/calendar/schoo… #histed #phd #education #cfp

Don't forget to book for our next Book+Author event on 31 Oct. In this intimate, in-person talk Dr Yves Rees will be in conversation with historian Jordy Silverstein about her impressive & insightful work Cruel Care: A history of Children at our Borders. 🔗Book: tinyurl.com/mw7h47kj

please do come join us next week, let's talk together about how we can think critically about the racism of the border, of policy-makers, and of how settler-colonial our migration policies are...

Congratulations to @colourful_hist for her Highly Commended application!

Did you miss our talk with Dr Lorinda Cramer yesterday? It can now be viewed on our YouTube Channel! Don't miss out on 'Old Clothes and New Looks' presented as part of Melbourne Fashion Week. youtu.be/BPqsDbyyII4

Did you know ... that all the #Javanese manuscripts from Yogya in the British Library can be accessed digitally via Wikimedia Commons blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri… commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:…

☀ Prof Katie Holmes' work integrates environmental, gender, oral and cultural history with an interest in the interplay between the individual, culture & environment. We are honoured to have @kt_holmes38 (pictured) speak at our 2024 Annual Lecture! 🔗 tinyurl.com/3r79xpvb

Ever wondered how early modern queens navigated their reigns? Read the latest blog for the "Premodern Gender" series from Tyler Horton, exploring gender in the queenships of Mary I and Christina of Sweden 👑⭐️ Read here ⬇️ auswhn.com.au/blog/regnant-q…

On the website, Wayne Bradshaw (Wayne Bradshaw) reviews Dennis Glover’s Repeat: A Warning from History 📚 aph.org.au/2024/10/book-r…

This Friday is our last Material Histories seminar for 2024! Join Gaye Sculthorpe to discover the story of this long lost rikawa (kelp water container) rediscovered in 2019, and Corioli Souter who will examine at a jug from the wreck of the Batavia! events.humanitix.com/material-histo…

#HistoryMonth2024 & #Halloween collide Melbourne Museum. See the Museum transform into a supernatural delight, filled with terrifying treats, bonechilling beats and frightening feats -TO. historymonth.org.au/event/hallowee… 📸PRO Victoria Ghost train poster, VPRS 12800/P0003, ADV 0914