Category: History
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Remembering Stuart Macintyre
A videorecording of the two-day symposium honouring and celebrating Stuart Macintyre (24–25 February 2022).blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/08/08/remembering-stuart-macintyre
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Nat Cutter
Nat Cutter (PhD in History, 2022), ‘Barbarian Civility: British Expatriates and the Transformation of the Maghreb in English Thought, 1660–1714′ This thesis explores the role of British expatriates living in Ottoman Algeria, Tunisia, and Tripolitania, in a transformation of British-Maghrebi diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations in the later Stuart era. This period, 1660–1714, represented a […] -
The Undoing of Roe v. Wade
On 24 June 2022, the US Supreme Court effectively overturned the decision on Roe v. Wade from 1973, which had previously established a constitutional right to abortion in the United States. In this article, republished from Pursuit, Hansen Lecturer in US History, Julia Bowes explores how “the US Supreme Court decision may embolden conservative grassroots […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/07/18/the-undoing-of-roe-v-wade
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History: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part II
A video-recording of the second instalment in this series, featuring Associate Professor Olga Bertelsen (Tiffin University), Associate Professor Oxana Shevel (Tufts University) and Professor Serhy Yekelchyk (University of Victoria), speaking on the theme of 'History' (29 April 2022).blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/06/20/history-russias-war-on-ukraine-part-ii
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Why Wait? Treaty and the Federal Election
First Nations Peoples shouldn’t have to wait for non-Indigenous Australians and the Government to catch up when it comes to committing to Treaty. Julia Hurst from SHAPS and Sarah Middleton (SSPS) discuss in this recent article, republished from Pursuit. As Australia’s federal election approaches, we have seen some early jostling around the politics of entrenching […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/05/20/why-wait-treaty-and-the-federal-election
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Christianity, Colonisation and the Challenge of Māori History
A video-recording of the 2021 Ernest Scott Lecture, Part II, delivered by Dr Hirini Kaa (October 2021). -
Anton Donohoe-Marques
Anton Donohoe-Marques (PhD in History, 2022), ‘Revisiting Anzac in the Wake of World War Two: Memory and Identity in the Post-War Period, 1945–1960’ This thesis explores how war remembrance – in the form of commemorative observance and the building of memorials – developed in Australia in the period that followed World War Two, from 1945 […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/05/10/anton-donohoe-marques-2
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Nathan Gardner
Nathan Gardner (PhD in History, 2022), ‘Imagining the “Chinese Australian Community”: A History of Community Organisations, 1970–2020’ This study examines the concept of a unitary ‘Chinese Australian community’ through a comparative analysis of Chinese Australian community organisations and their responses to six major events or moments in recent history (1970–2020). These events and moments are: […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/05/08/nathan-gardner
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Matthew Holmes
Matthew Holmes (PhD in History, 2022) ‘Growing Songs: Australian Sound Media for Children from Parlour Music to Podcasts’ This thesis provides the first cultural history of sound media produced for Australian children. It opens by exploring post-Federation parlour sheet music and the burgeoning mechanised media of radio and phonographs, with a concentration on the rising […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/05/05/matthew-holmes
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Hidden Women of History: ‘The Buzzwinker’ Ellen Miles, Child Convict, Goldfields Pickpocket and Vagrant
As part of a series in the Conversation, looking at under-acknowledged women through the ages, Janet McCalman examines the life of Ellen Miles, a child convict born in 1820s England, told through some of her court appearances throughout her life.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/04/25/hidden-women-of-history
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