Australian Historical Studies
@AHSjournal
Australian Historical Studies journal | Since 1940 | Published by Taylor & Francis |
Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize 2025: for postgrads presenting papers at the AHA conference at JCU & CQU next month, this prize is offered by @AHSjournal and @Routledge See the flyer for details, entries close 30 Sept. #OzHA2025 @AustHistAssoc @AHA_ECRs @tandfhss @tandfonline
Presenting a paper at the AHA Conference next week? Read on. Thanks @AustHistAssoc for helping to spread the word 👏👏👏
HDRs! Gearing up for the 2025 AHA Conference? Afterwards, consider applying for the Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize, for your chance to be published in Australian Historical Studies! Follow the link for more: theaha.org.au/wp-content/upl…
Ben Silverstein reviews 'Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision Making' (eds N.Watson & H.Douglas), and 'Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters between Law and Colonialism', J.Balint, J.Evans, N.McMillan & M.McMillan tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
While the 8 articles in our August issue (56.3) have been online for a while, they’re now collected under an editorial by Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley. The issue also includes an exhibition review & 15 book reviews. Take a look 👀📑👏 tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/56/…
Richard White reviews 'Colonial Adventure', by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver @MUPublishing tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Congratulations to the winners from Australian Historical Studies 👏
Congratulations to our 2025 Prize Winners, announced last week at the AHA conference in Townsville!
Susan Sheridan reviews ‘Miles Franklin Undercover’, by Kerrie Davies @KerrieMDavies Allen & Unwin @AllenAndUnwin tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Juanita Kwok reviews ‘Chinese Colonial Entanglements: Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880–1950’, edited by Julia T. Martínez, Claire Lowrie & Gregor Benton. University of Hawai’i Press @UHPRESSNEWS tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Alan Lester @aljhlester reviews ‘Inquiring into Empire: Colonial Commissions and British Imperial Reform, 1819–1833’, by Lisa Ford, Kirsten McKenzie, Naomi Parkinson & David Andrew Roberts Cambridge University Press @CambridgeUP tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
William Hoverd reviews 'Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900–1956', by Richard S. Hill & Steven Loveridge Auckland University Press @AUPBooks tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Sarah Carter reviews ‘Rēwena and Rabbit Stew: The Rural Kitchen in Aotearoa, 1800–1940’, by Katie Cooper Auckland University Press @AUPBooks doi.org/10.1080/103146…
Caroline Ingram @CarolineIngram4 reviews ‘O’Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre’, by Kate Auty @KateAuty La Trobe University Press, with Black Inc. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Shurlee Swain reviews ‘An Unlikely Survival: The Politics of Welfare in Australia Since 1950’ by John Murphy @MUPublishing tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Henry Reynolds reviews 'Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy', by Clare Wright @text_publishing tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Exhibition reviews in our journal are free access for three months from online publication date. Tracy Ryan’s review, ‘Omnia: All and Everything. Tweed Regional Museum, 9 Apr 2024–23 Nov 2024. What Are Museums For?’ is open access to 30 Aug. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Rowan Light reviews: 'Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tūmatauenga. The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa', by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald & Rebecca Rice, and 'A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa', eds C. Hammond & S. Higgins tinyurl.com/2u83zpy5
New article published online ahead-of-print by Daniel Leach, 'The Day They Dropped the Atom Bomb on Healesville: Exercise Alphabet, the Army and Civil Defence in Australia, 1954–57' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Ann Curthoys reviews 'Power and Dysfunction: The New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883–1940', by Richard Egan @ANU_Press tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Giselle Byrnes reviews 'Becoming Aotearoa: A New History of New Zealand', by Michael Belgrave. Massey University Press @masseyunipress tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Congratulations to Jane Carey @JaneChistory on winning the 2025 Ernest Scott Prize for her book, 'Taking to the Field: A History of Australian Women in Science'. You can read our AHS review here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Claire Hooker @DrClaireHooker reviews 'Taking to the Field: A History of Australian Women in Science' by Jane Carey @JaneChistory @MonashPub doi.org/10.1080/103146…