Australian Historical Studies

Congratulations to Zoe Smith (ANU) @ZoeASmith4 winner of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the @AustHistAssoc conference. Thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfonline for supporting our annual prize. See the judges’ citation below

Annabel Cooper reviews ‘Caught on Screen: Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television’ by James Findlay. Published by @BloomsburyAcad . doi.org/10.1080/103146…

Ross Webb reviews ‘Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand’ by Lyndy McIntyre. Published by Otago University Press. doi.org/10.1080/103146…

Lorinda Cramer reviews ‘Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War’ by Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw. Published by @RLPublisher doi.org/10.1080/103146…

Michael Belgrave reviews ‘The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860’, by Erik Olssen. Published by Auckland University Press doi.org/10.1080/103146…

Leonard Janiszewski reviews ‘Ikarians in South Australia, 1900–1945: Emigration, Settlement, Community Building and Integration’, by Yianni (John) Cartledge. Published by @AnthemPress doi.org/10.1080/103146…

Published online, an article by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, ‘The Emotional Labour of Feminism: Australia’s International Women’s Year 1975’. Abstract below. doi.org/10.1080/103146…

Published online ahead-of-print, an article by Judith Brett,’ Civil Liberties, Humanism, and Feminism: The Political Formation of Three Abortion Law Reform Campaigners – Beryl Henderson, Julia Freebury, and Beatrice Faust’. Abstract below. doi.org/10.1080/103146…

Published online ahead-of-print, an article by Jesse Adams Stein, Elizabeth Humphrys, and Bettina Frankham, ‘Safe Bodies, Hot Plastic? Practical Issues in the Introduction of High-Visibility Workwear (Hi-Vis) in Australia, 1960s–80s’. doi.org/10.1080/103146…

Raewyn Dalziel reviews ‘Isaac Featherston ‘Petatone’: A Colonial Life’, by John E. Martin Published by Te Herenga Waka University Press tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Eugene Schofield-Georgeson reviews ‘A Fair Day’s Work: The Quest to Win Back Time’, by Sean Scalmer Published by Melbourne University Press tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Jim McAloon reviews ‘The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa’, by Catherine Comyn Published by Economic and Social Research Aotearoa tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Jock Phillips reviews ‘The Last Tour: Paul and Eslanda Robeson’s Visit to Australia and New Zealand’, by Ann Curthoys Published by The Miegunyah Press tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This begins tomorrow at University of Melbourne. Short notice but plenty of interesting panel speakers.

James Watson @JamesJosWatson reviews ‘Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia’ by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios, Andrew Saniga and David Beynon Berghahn Books @BerghahnAnthro doi.org/10.1080/103146…

Jason M. Gibson @JasonMGib reviews ‘Clever Men: How Worlds Collided on the Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948’, by Martin Thomas @historyANU Published by Allen & Unwin @AllenAndUnwin tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Greg Ryan reviews ‘Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia’, by Matthew Allen McGill-Queen’s University Press tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Very honoured to win this one - and incredibly grateful to the judges for such a generous citation!

New book reviews just published online 👀📚👏🏽 Matthew Ricketson @MRicketson reviews ‘Australian Newspapers in the Television Age, 1956–2006’, by Rodney Tiffen @RodTiffen Anthem Press @AnthemPress tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to Mary Blight (Curtin), runner-up of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper by a postgrad at the @AustHistAssoc conference. Read the judges’ citation below. Thanks to all prize entrants, to our judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their support of this prize