The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

This book provides a practical theory and research informed guide to understanding conflict in the creative and cultural industries. This edited collection

The Australian flag was lowered for the last time at the Port Moresby parade grounds in September 1975, leading to the birth of Papua New Guinea. At that very moment, Australia's role as an external coloniser also came to an end. Australia's empire was not only a matter of territory. In Empire's End, historian Jon Piccini shows it was also a way of thinking, of a world view shaped by culture, ...

As consistent as her beliefs on race and immigration, Hanson has been championing men’s rights causes for 30 years – at the expense of women.

Australians have every reason to be angry at our political elites. But Hanson’s nostalgic and false history does not hold the answer.

Come together to celebrate VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network @ 10!

The alternative is despair and the uglier politics that heralds

This Viewpoint looks back at the quirks of fate that, over forty years ago, led its author to become a seller of women-centred books and then to a parallel career as an historian of the British wom...

This book investigates the development and impact of racialised labour policies and discourses within the International Labour Organization (ILO) from its founding in 1919 to the late 1950s. Drawing o...

The history of gynaecology fuses innovation, authority and violation – and radical surgery is not the unavoidable answer to suffering

This article describes an important but hidden tool through which Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act, and thus the White Australia policy, was enforced: the fines that were issued to captains,...

In this blog, Shirleene Robinson and the Australian Women's History Network remember Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders, AO, FASSA, FRHistS (1947–2026).

Following the establishment of a British protectorate in southeastern New Guinea in 1884, the imperial and several Australian colonial governments published detailed geographical and social informa...

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