Emma Dortins reviews Stephen Gapps, The Sydney Wars: conflict in the early colony 1788-1817, Sydney, NSW, NewSouth Publishing 2018. The Sydney Wars, as its title suggests, brings under a single conceptual umbrella the conflicts between Aboriginal peoples of the Cumberland Plain and the British colonists. It spans  thirty years from the arrival of the … Read more
by Dr Joy McCann, Visiting Fellow, School of History, Australian National University…Â The central theme explored at the recent annual conference of the Australian Historical Association was âThe Scale of Historyâ. The organisers asked participants to consider how questions of scaleâtemporal, geographical, social, archivalâinfluence their research. The theme resonated strongly with me, having recently … Read more
by Peter Hobbins … I was a reluctant adopter of social media, and have in fact given presentations entitled âthe scepticâs guide to Twitterâ. Since sending my first tweet in 2014 (https://twitter.com/history2wheeler), however, Iâve come to appreciate the platformâs value in sharing information, building networks and serendipitously encountering all manner of unexpected content. Over … Read more