We have compiled a summer reading and listening list of member publications, podcasts and other research outputs. Thank you to the members who responded to our callouts in November and early December.
It’s not too late to add your published reading and listening outputs to the list. If you wish to add something to the 2025–2026 list, email Phillip Jaworski (PHA Website Officer) at phanswcmember.01@gmail.com
Happy reading and listening!
Paul Ashton (ed.), Walking a Tightrope: Milestones and moments in the history of NSW Treasury, 2025. https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/nsw-treasury/about-us/nsw-treasury-bicentenary
Featuring chapters by:
- Paul Irish & Michael Bennett, ‘Aboriginal economies’ – Chapter 1
- Carol Liston, ‘The New South Wales Colonial Treasury before self-government’ – Chapter 2
- Peter Hobbins, ‘Monetising the social contract, 1911–1920’ – Chapter 6
- Minna Muhlen-Schulte, ‘The House the lotteries built’ – Chapter 9
- Kylie Andrews, ‘Australia’s determined transition to decimal currency, 1966’ – Chapter 10
Alinde Bierhuizen and Bec Gallo, ‘Villawood: Between Hope and Hopelessness’, History: Magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society, no. 166, December 2025.
Pauline Curby, Woolooware: a grand position, Sutherland Shire Historical Society, 2025.
Christine de Matos, ‘Classical mateship: A transtemporal view of a national ideal’ (2025). For special issue of the Journal of War & Culture Studies on ‘Classicisms and War in the Long Twentieth Century’, edited by Christine de Matos, Karen McCluskey and Ana Carden-Coyne. Open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17526272.2025.2549178
Cara Cross and Christine de Matos, ‘Becoming the Occupier: Power Reversals in the Asia-Pacific War and in Australian-Occupied Japan’ (2025). For special issue of The International History Review on ‘The Age of Metamorphosis: Role Reversals in Foreign Occupations during and after the Second World War’, edited by Camilo Erlichman and Félix Streicher. Open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07075332.2025.2568585
Mark Dunn, The Greengate Hotel: A Social and Development History, BBS Holdings, December 2024 (available in 2025).
Tanya Evans, and Katie Barclay, Ashley Barnwell, Joanne Begiato, Laura King (eds.), Inheriting the family: objects, identities and emotions, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/inheriting-the-family-9781350382503/
Tanya Evans and Jodie Wills, ‘The impact of sex and gendered stories of sport in Australia’, The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 42 no.2, 2025. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2025.2464188
Meg Foster, ‘A Local’s Guide to Australian Bushranging’, History: Magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society, no. 166, December 2025.
Meg Foster, ‘Sam Poo: a Chinese Bushranger?’, ABC Radio National, Rewind, 2025, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-rewind/the-history-listen-sam-poo-chinese-bushranger-bathurst-mudgee/104824868
Stephen Gapps, Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales 1838–1844, New South Books, 2025. (You can read a review of this book in the PHA Book Reviews blog).
Stephen Gapps, Co-editor, with Rachel Perkins, Mina Murry and Henry Reynolds, The Australian Wars, Allen and Unwin, 2025.
Peter Hobbins, ‘Cold War, high tech’, The World Remade: How World War II Changed Everything, Australian National Maritime Museum, 2025.
Jeff Hopkins-Weise, ‘Redcoats at “Red Cliff Point”: Moreton Bay’s detachment of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot, 1824–1826’, in Margaret Kowald, Rod Kirkpatrick, & Ruth Kerr, eds., The Moreton Bay Settlement, The Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 2025, pp. 130–142.
Jeff Hopkins-Weise and Rod Pratt, ‘An imperial presence and Queensland’s scarlet legacy’, in Barry Shaw, ed., Brisbane: Redcoats to Diggers: From Colonial Agitation to the Impact of War (Brisbane History Group, Papers, no. 29, 2024), pp. 63–82. (First available in 2025).
Jeff Hopkins-Weise, ‘HMS Orpheus Memorialisation and Relief Fund: Tragedy on the Australia Station, 7 February 1863’, The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History, vol. 47, no. 1, 2025, pp. 1–30.
Jeff Hopkins-Weise, ‘Medal, Murder and a Marriage – The Battle of Orakau, Australia and Lord Howe Island connection’, The Volunteers: The Journal of the New Zealand Military Historical Society, vol. 50, no. 2, November 2024, pp. 65–82. (First available in 2025).
Scott McKinnon, and Dale Dominey-Howes, Andrew Gorman-Murray, ‘Moving on: Exploring Mobilities of LGBT People in Christchurch After the 2011 Earthquake’, in Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises, Palgrave McMillan (Springer Nature), 2025.
Scott McKinnon, and Heather Downey, Katie Holmes, Karen Twigg, Margaret Cook, Jessica Urwin, ‘Voices from the Murray–Darling Basin’, Oral History Project, Murray-Darling Basin Authority, 2025, https://www.mdba.gov.au/science-and-knowledge/voices-murray-darling-basin
James Moloney, Sugar business: The sugar industry on the Clarence River and how cane growers organised themselves to 1925, Clarence Canegrowers Association, Maclean, NSW, 2025. Available online through the NLA or purchase from: Clarence Canegrowers Association, 239 River Street, Maclean NSW 2463 OR PO Box 140, Maclean NSW 2463.
Lisa Murray, Fifty years of the New South Wales Ombudsman, 2025, https://www.ombo.nsw.gov.au/50-years-pursuing-fairness-for-nsw-1975-2025
Lisa Murray with Ben Arnfield, ‘Dove’s Plans of Sydney’, Openbook: SLNSW Magazine, Autumn 2025, https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/doves-plans-sydney
Jacqui Newling, ‘“This starving island”: plenty, paucity and providence on Norfolk Island, 1790’, History Australia, vol. 22, no. 1, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2024.2427635
Jacqui Newling, ‘Baked, boiled, roasted, steamed and stewed: kitchens and cooling appliances as artefacts of domestic life in Australia’ in Madeline Shanahan (ed.), Archaeologies of Food in Australia, Sydney University Press, 2025. Full text online: https://open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/9781761540493.html
Lauren Samuelsson, ‘Marie Antoinette, mother of French fries?’, ABC Radio National, No one saw it coming with Mark Fennell, 2025, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/no-one-saw-it-coming/marie-antoinette-potato-french-fries-glow-up/105127732
Lauren Samuelsson, ‘Kitchen Confidential at 25: Anthony Bourdain revealed high-end chefs as rock-star pirates with a passion for food’, The Conversation, 1 May 2025, https://theconversation.com/kitchen-confidential-at-25-anthony-bourdain-revealed-high-end-chefs-as-rock-star-pirates-with-a-passion-for-food-254818
Madeline Shanahan (ed.), Archaeologies of Food in Australia, Sydney University Press, 2025. https://sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/9781761540493
Alison Wishart, ‘The “last word in baths”: The quest for a swimming facility for Botany’, History: Magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society, no. 163, March 2025. https://www.academia.edu/128269074/_the_last_word_in_baths_the_quest_for_a_swimming_facility_for_Botany