Category: History
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Nicole Davis
Nicole Davis (PhD in History, 2023) ‘Nineteenth-century Arcades in Australia: History, Heritage & Representation’ This thesis explores the social and spatial histories of Australia’s nineteenth-century arcades from their beginning in Melbourne in 1853, with an emphasis on their first half century of development. It explores the retail, leisure and business activities they hosted and the lived experiences […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/04/19/nicole-davis-2
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First Nations People Have Made a Plea for ‘Truth-Telling’
By reckoning with its past, Australia can finally help improve our future. In this article from The Conversation, SHAPS Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow, Indigenous and Settler Relations Collaboration, Julia Hurst, together with Sarah Maddison from School of Social and Political Sciences discusses the perspective of truth-telling in the third article in a series discussing these topics. […] -
The D-Notice System and the Question of Trust
A series of Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on Australian journalists in 2019 stimulated numerous reviews into press freedom and the impact of Australia’s secrecy laws on public interest journalism. One of the proposals that was subsequently put forward by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security in 2020 with a view to ensuring […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/04/06/d-notice-system
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Jewish Antifascism in Post-World War II Australia
For Australian Jews in the 1940s and 1950s, remembering the Holocaust meant fighting racism and colonialism. Max Kaiser (PhD in History, 2019) (@maxyka), looks at the histories of Jewish antifascism and its broader implications in post-World War Two Australia in this article, republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Readers are advised this […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/03/27/jewish-antifascism
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Review of Lucy Frost’s Convict Orphans
Janet McCalman reviews Lucy Frost's new book, "Determined Survival, Desperate Poverty and Fractured Families: The Stories of Australia’s Convict Orphans".blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/03/23/review-of-lucy-frosts-convict-orphans
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Poetry: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part V
A video-recording of the fifth instalment in this series, featuring Uilleam Blacker, Yuliya Musakovska, Lesyk Panasiuk, Iryna Shuvalova (14 October 2022).blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/03/19/poetry-russias-war-on-ukraine-part-v
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Divya Rama Gopalakrishnan
Divya Rama Gopalakrishnan (PhD in History, 2023) ‘Venereal Diseases and Bodily Excesses: A Social History of Contagions in the Madras Presidency (c1780 to 1900)’ This thesis investigates the discourses around bodily excess and venereal diseases in colonial South India, or, as it was known in the nineteenth century, the Madras presidency. It highlights the epistemological […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/03/15/divya-rama-gopalakrishnan
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Lessons from the History of Tobacco Advertising Reform
“There are uncanny parallels between the public health challenges posed by gambling advertising today and tobacco advertising 50 years ago.” Thomas Kehoe, Honorary Fellow, SHAPS and Historian, Cancer Council Victoria, together with Carolyn Holbrook, Senior Lecturer in History, Deakin University, explore the history of tobacco advertising and its demise, as well as the connection to […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/03/06/tobacco-advertising-in-the-1970s
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Assessing Joe Biden’s Place in History
Speculation over US President Joe Biden’s intention to run for office again is reaching fever pitch. Biden is, reportedly, on the verge of announcing he will indeed seek reelection. Opinion pieces are being churned out at a rapid clip. Polls are being commissioned with a feverish intensity. Liam Byrne (Honorary Fellow in SHAPS) and Emma […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/02/28/joe-biden-in-history
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Essentialising ‘Russia’ won’t end the war against Ukraine
In this article, republished from the Conversation, SHAPS Hansen Professor in History and Deputy Dean, Mark Edele, reviews Keir Giles's Russia’s War on Everybody and the long historical context of Russia's war on Ukraine.
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