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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Coming to NEXTGATe forum on Failures & Letdowns (Monday 18 Aug #ESEH2025)? You may like this thoughtful paper (free to air Int Review of Env Hist) press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... @wildpasts.bsky.social @mcookhistory.bsky.social @ncushing12.bsky.social @ruthamorgan.bsky.social

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I recently reviewed the series "Eat the Invaders" for History Australia. It is a well made and thought provoking series hosted by the charming Tony Armstrong. I thought it could have gone further. Watch it here: iview.abc.net.au/show/eat-the... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MWUCR...

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A case for cannibalism? What ‘Eat the Invaders’ doesn’t say

Published in History Australia (Vol. 22, No. 2, 2025)

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Open Access article on "Crook Cook" and "Nazi Cook" - what to do about kitsch on a monumental scale in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. @clairebrennan.bsky.social @nikolasorr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Monumentally Kitsch | Radical History Review | Duke University Press

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Taking up the mantle from the EHN started by @libbydeq.bsky.social, the Australian and Aotearoa NZ Environmental History Network brings together EH scholars, offers prizes and issues a regular newsletter. Join us!

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It is that time of year again - the State Library of NSW Fellowships are open for applications. I am greatly enjoying my time as the Coral Thomas Fellow, and look forward to welcoming the next incumbent. Think about applying now. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards...

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Fellowships

The Library offers a number of prestigious and competitive fellowships to support the study, writing and teaching of Australian history and culture.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Another round coming in the US statue wars.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Spent the last couple of weeks at @slnsw looking for animals on detailed plans of Sydney city street blocks from 1880s to 1930s. Not much to see. Mainly the odd stable hidden away behind the street fronts. So then I visited the grand daddy of Sydney stables.

Plan of Market Street block showing stables behind building facing the street.

Grand building with turrets. Current Sydney Conservatorium, built as the stables for Government House, Sydney.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Top morning last Friday talking history with these legends and many others during a Museums of History NSW symposium at the Mint. Looking forward to joining efforts to connect historians working across the state. Photo © Joshua Morris for MHNSW.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Looking for historical animals in Sydney’s Centennial Park. And why historians need a stout pair of boots.

Former bird sanctuary, wrought iron gates with wetland plants and bird donated by Gould League of Birdlovers.

Paperbark / melaleuca trees with flying foxes hanging from them.

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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

ECRs and HDRs: don't forget the AHA offers prizes and grants to help you get to the annual conference, help you with your research, and reward your stellar contributions! Check out the Awards and Prizes page for more info!

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Awards and Prizes - The Australian Historical Association

The AHA administers a range of prizes and awards annually and biennially. The Association is also proud of their partnership with the National Archives of Australia to offer scholarships to…

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Is this happening in your place? Theft of plaques from monuments and memorials apparently for the value of the metal? Are the thieves unwitting allies of iconoclasts?

Newcastle (Australia) coal monument (1909) missing illustrative and informational plaques.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

“For researchers and developers alike, these findings offer a roadmap for improving AI’s understanding of global history, paving the way for tools that better support scholarly inquiry into the past.” Or, they indicate that some types of thinking are best done by humans, not by artifices.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

There is some irony in seeing that my former colleague, the late Professor Lyndall RYAN AM, has been made an officer of the Order of Australia today "For distinguished service to tertiary education, particularly Indigenous history and colonial settlement through research and publications."

Photograph of EP Lyndall Ryan with a book open in front of her on a table.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Academic Work Tracker Template v2.2 (2025)

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

1940 bushfire poster from New South Wales linking them with the housing shortage that existed before the war and became much worse as it progressed, as resources were shifted to war purposes.

Stylised view of a heavily burned forest with black and grey tree trunks on a background of red soil and sky. Text: Burned trees build no homes. Prevent Forest Fires.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

It is Christmas day here in Australia and as part of my bushfire series, what seems like a highly inappropriate way to wish someone Christmas joy.

Three exhausted looking men holding green boughs and axes watching as a bush fire burns around their dwelling. Labelled “The Enemy” but with the words “To wish you joy” added.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

In 1948, the Bush Fire Advisory Committee reminded the people of New South Wales of their Christian duty to provide stewardship to birds and animals. They put a strong emphasis on charismatic native species but didn't forget the economically important sheep in the background.

An image of an idealised edge of well watered, green Australian bush with kangaroo, wallabies, lyre birds, an echidna, emu and chicks, possum, kookaburra, koala, willy wagtails, magpie larks and magpies, with sheep in the background. A quote from Coleridge about loving all creatures great and small; and the message Protect Australian Birds and Animals, Prevent Bush Fires.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Citizen humanities for you to join in on.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Playing with perspective in this 1947 anti-bushfire poster. The white cuff and well groomed hand suggest this is a city dweller unfamiliar with the protocols that needed to be observed in the bush.

A man's hand extending out from a red railway carriage's window tosses a lit cigarette butt out into a dry Australian landscape. Caption: Don't throw them out! Prevent Bushfires

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A series in the lead up to Christmas Australian-style. What is more seasonal than the threat of bushfires? Some cautionary posters from the NSW Rural Fire Service, starting with this tasteless one from 1946. All nicked from www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/ourstory/gal...

Red, black and white poster labelling a lit match an atom bomb Australian style and warning people to put out matches to prevent bushfires.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Great to see this recognition of historians working outside of the academy. Also, to see what the ABS says that we do. I would add “more than” before human history.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

An ibis’s work is never done. At Sydney Botanic Gardens.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A simple message post the Riding Tide protest in Newcastle, Australia. But the ships keep coming and leaving a day later full of coal mainly bound for Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China. More coal is exported here than through any other port. #coalmustfall.

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Wild Life always seems to promise something different than wildlife does. The crocodilian binding suggests this book could go either way. 🐊

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 05/11/2024

Public disappointment with universities has reached epidemic proportions. Christopher Newfield suggests the answer lies in redefining #HigherEducation around intellectual and social benefits, not monetary ones. Join us Mon, 11/18, @ 4pm EST on Zoom - register: websites.umass.edu/feinberg/nov... 🗃️

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WHAT ARE THE HUMANITIES FOR? – WHAT ARE UNIVERSITIES FOR?

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

YES. See also the RHS report (come to think of it, @smidbob.bsky.social, might the RHS join us on here?) College/uni recruiters and university managers are working with a completely unrealistic picture of the world. files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u...

chart: : Median graduate employability: selected arts, humanities, social
science and STEM subjects. History is at 87.3%

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Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Just a proof of life post as I have not been using this account. A bluebottle and a seagull on Newcastle Beach, Australia.

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