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Turning up the heat – the summer Research Showcase

PHA Admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:54:08 +0000

Our first event for 2026 was our Summer Research Showcase, which was held on Saturday the 28th of February. The showcase was envisioned as a way for those of us who couldn’t make it up to Darwin for the Hot Histories conference in October last year. We heard from three of our members who presented at the ... Read more

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‘Christmas Food and Feasting, A History’

phanswblogeditor — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 06:22:46 +0000

…by Minna Muhlen-Schulte In the Antipodes Christmas in July has become a mid-year winter tradition to indulge the food and booze we normally enjoy at the end of the year. What is the historical lineage behind turkeys, puddings, mince pies and mulled wine? In her new book Christmas Food and Feasting PHA NSW member Dr ... Read more

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Who do you think you are?

phanswblogeditor — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 04:21:50 +0000

… by Michael Bennett I really should have had a haircut! After being asked half way through last year to appear on the Casey Donovan episode of SBS’s Who Do You Think You Are, I naturally began thinking about how TV shows are made. I imagined rocking up to the set to be greeted by ... Read more

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A special book launch: Rosemary Kerr’s history of the road trip

phanswblogeditor — Tue, 21 May 2019 02:08:33 +0000

…by Pauline Curby Rosemary Kerr’s long-awaited road trip book was launched at Gleebooks on Glebe Point Road on the evening of 17 May. Chaired with competent professionalism by friend and colleague Dr Emma Dortins, this launch marked the culmination of years of research and writing, leading to a PhD thesis and finally to this ... Read more

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Current Research Notes: Going to London

phanswblogeditor — Wed, 01 May 2019 12:42:33 +0000

…Ian Willis is preparing papers for two conferences: the 2019 Australian Historical Association conference and the 2019 Redefining Australia and New Zealand at the University of Warsaw Thousands of young single Australian-born women travelled to London and beyond from the mid-to-late 19th century. This pilgrimage, as historian Angela Woollacott has called it, was a ... Read more

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Great Strike of 1917 captured on film

phanswblogeditor — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:20:18 +0000

by Laila Ellmoos… The Great Strike of 1917 began on the NSW railways and tramways on 2 August 1917 in the midst of World War 1. The strike started when employees from Eveleigh Railway Workshops and Randwick Tramsheds walked off the job to protest against the introduction of a new way of monitoring worker ... Read more

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Public history: exploring productive relationships with partner practitioners

phanswblogeditor — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 23:17:48 +0000

by Peter Hobbins… In recent years I have come to favour the term ‘community historians’, in part because it encompasses local, family and special-interest historians, alongside what we in medical history refer to as ‘practitioner’ historians. Indeed, I’ve begun experimenting with the phrase ‘partner practitioners’ as an inclusive term for the variety of folks ... Read more

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Army, empire, natural history and a forgotten couple

phanswblogeditor — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:09:54 +0000

by Brian Walsh … I would like to reflect on some of the challenges I faced while writing my recently published book, William and Elizabeth Paterson – the Edge of Empire. The book is a dual biography of a couple largely forgotten in Australian history. Its scope includes William’s natural history excursions in southern Africa ... Read more

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The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is 40!

phanswblogeditor — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:35:05 +0000

Nicole Cama talks about the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. (The following is an edited article, which first appeared on The Dictionary of Sydney website. It accompanies a podcast of Nicole talking to Nic Healy from 2SER Breakfast.) The first Mardi Gras parade in Sydney was held on 24 June ... Read more

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History Matrix

phanswblogeditor — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 02:25:17 +0000

…In this occasional series about members’ blogs, we introduce HistoryMatrix, the electronic journal of Dr Bruce Baskerville. Bruce maintains four blogs – HistoryMatrix is the ‘history’ blog; mrbbaskerville is the place he opines; Sepia Green is a blog for reviews; and, Green Plaques is a grant project to create an archive of commemorative plaques ... Read more

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