A great resource for those interested in the history of maritime trade unions now available online. Chairing the University Library Committee is one of the best gigs on campus openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/14…

To see and understand NZ through 'the great encompassing ocean’, shaped and reshaped by indigenous mobilities, also highly recommend the full chapter: 'Native Seas and Native Seaways: The Pacific Ocean and New Zealand'.

Have you popped into the economic history stream of #OzHA2019 yet? Rohan Howitt just gave a superb paper on the peculiar and ill-fated “company micro-state” settlement of the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in 1849–52.

Thrilled to see this - awesome work Dave Haines and Jonny! And Grace Millar!

Thank you! And if you're heading over to @HistAustJournal do check out the excellent articles in the special issue on Colonial Formations Centre for Colonial and Settler Studies .

It's not everyday you see real life #WWII ship #oil. #Microbiologist and #PhD student Awei Bainivalu is keen to start studying the samples that our #research director, Dr Matt Carter ⚓️🇳🇿 brought back from #Chuuk Lagoon. #majorprojectsfoundation

Available now! A POWER IN THE WORLD: THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM IN OCEANIA, find it here: buff.ly/2ywzvK9

This semester's schedule for the Provocations seminar series within UOW's School of Humanities and Social Inquiry includes some CASS researchers and friends! Come along if you are available.

Thank you @DrJulieMcIntyre and @SophieLoyWilson for your work and shining a bright light forward. I'm still excited to have caught a glimpse of Fiji bananas on George St

Diary alert for Sydney history types: Transcolonial Histories Now! Thursday 17 October 5.30-7pm, Building 10 UTS, Level 14. Julia Martinez and Claire Lowrie (UoW) Chaired by Melissa Bellanta. This is our last History Now! for 2019, hope to see you there.

Thanks everyone involved 1869 Conference & Heritage Festival CRoCC and AVSA for an excellent conference! This never gets old #otago1869 #dunnerstunner

Sometimes even the fish are plastic. #plasticocean #plasticheritage #plasticage #Anthropocene

UOW PhD candidate Freya Croft has received a prestigious Blue Charter Fellowship from The Association of Commonwealth Universities, to tackle plastic waste in the fishing industry 👏 uow.to/33PwwKB ACCESS geog&enviro #BlueCharter

Looking forward to this tomorrow. Meat, sugar, coffee, cocoa, cans, fridges and more! #foodandcolonialism

praps one for Dave Haines and Jonathan West?

Did you know that June 25th is Day of the Seafarer? One of our favourite "seafaring" collections is that of the Adelaide Steamship Company. Formed in 1875, it grew to become Australia's largest shipping company. We hold records of the company from the 1870s to 1980s.

$14k in publication support grants from the Journal of Pacific History - applications due 30 September