Dr Nikolas Orr (@nikolas_orr) 's Twitter Profile
Dr Nikolas Orr

@nikolas_orr

Historian of global Indigenous #iconoclasm & colonial #monuments • Snr Heritage Officer @nswdcceew • he/him/él • All views my own

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Australia Institute (@theausinstitute) 's Twitter Profile Photo

With a federal election around the corner, it is still legal to lie in political ads. This weakens our democracy. 🎯 South Australia and the ACT have shown it can be done. It is time for truth in political advertising laws. Add your name: theaus.in/TIPApetition #auspol

With a federal election around the corner, it is still legal to lie in political ads. This weakens our democracy.

🎯 South Australia and the ACT have shown it can be done. It is time for truth in political advertising laws.

Add your name: theaus.in/TIPApetition
#auspol
Public Statues and Sculpture Association (@pssatweets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎯2020 was a turning point for sculpture, with public statues sparking global debates. Should these controversial works stay or go? Is there a viable third way to retain and explain them? Explore these questions in ‘Toppling Statues.’ 📘 BUY 👉 pssauk.org/product/toppli…

🎯2020 was a turning point for sculpture, with public statues sparking global debates. Should these controversial works stay or go? Is there a viable third way to retain and explain them? Explore these questions in ‘Toppling Statues.’ 📘 

BUY 👉 pssauk.org/product/toppli…
EUROPAST (@euro_past) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're leaving X as a response to increasingly concerning developments on the platform, including its tolerance for far-right and undemocratic ideas, as well as the reckless rhetoric from its owner. More: bit.ly/LeavingX ❗️Visit our new LinkedIn: bit.ly/4aqOaHY

We're leaving X as a response to increasingly concerning developments on the platform, including its tolerance for far-right and undemocratic ideas, as well as the reckless rhetoric from its owner.

More: bit.ly/LeavingX

❗️Visit our new LinkedIn: bit.ly/4aqOaHY
Contested Histories in Public Spaces (@contestedh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📣 Excited to announce the Monument(al) Challenges Toolkit! Teaching diverse classrooms about contested histories isn’t easy. This toolkit equips educators with strategies for inclusive, impactful, and creative history teaching. Download it here: contestedhistories.org/monumental-cha…

📣 Excited to announce the Monument(al) Challenges Toolkit!

Teaching diverse classrooms about contested histories isn’t easy. This toolkit equips educators with strategies for inclusive, impactful, and creative history teaching.

Download it here: contestedhistories.org/monumental-cha…
History Council of NSW (@historynsw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Come along to #hcnswmember State Library of NSW Fellows’ Forum: 'Creative responses to history' on Wed 26 February! Hear from Fellows Phillip Bartlett, Eloise Reddy & Bronwyn Rennex speak about their exciting research drawn from the Library’s collection buff.ly/4gzoZEv

PHA NSW & ACT (@pha_nsw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Working as a freelance and/or oral historian in NSW We have teamed up with OralHistoryNSW for an informative panel discussion about working as a freelance and/or oral historian. Join us at History House on 3 March from 5.30 pm. For registrations: phansw.org.au/upcoming-event…

Working as a freelance and/or oral historian in NSW

We have teamed up with <a href="/OralHistoryNSW/">OralHistoryNSW</a> for an informative panel discussion about working as a freelance and/or oral historian.

Join us at History House on 3 March from 5.30 pm.

For registrations: phansw.org.au/upcoming-event…
Dr Nikolas Orr (@nikolas_orr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Anyone got access to this article? Asking for a friend… Anna Cole, “Gender, race and colonialism: Aboriginal debutante balls in the 1960s”, Crossings, no. 20 (June 1994), 22–30.

Dr Srishti Guha (@srishti_guha) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My PhD thesis 'Visual Cultures of Empire: India and Australia, 1860 - 1940' is finally available online to read and download! hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518358 Uni_Newcastle_NOVA

AHA (Australia) (@austhistassoc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Haven't registered for the 2025 AHA Conference ?? Get moving, today's the last day you can! Follow the link to secure your place and join us in sunny (and warm) Townsville! eventbrite.com.au/e/looking-up-a…

History Council of NSW (@historynsw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join the IFPH-FIHP for a thought-provoking discussion with historian Tad Stoermer Tad will explore the ethical, political, and practical challenges of doing public history this Wednesday at 11pm Sydney time via zoom Register via buff.ly/90m0lPl

Contested Histories in Public Spaces (@contestedh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In 2019, Bordeaux unveiled a statue honouring Modeste Testas, an African woman enslaved by local traders and later freed. It was covered in white plaster as a “symbolic act of memory,” sparking debate on how France confronts its slavery past. 🔗contestedhistories.org/resources/case…

In 2019, Bordeaux unveiled a statue honouring Modeste Testas, an African woman enslaved by local traders and later freed. It was covered in white plaster as a “symbolic act of memory,” sparking debate on how France confronts its slavery past. 

🔗contestedhistories.org/resources/case…