By Harriet Mercer Environment & History, essay no. 10 In the tenth article in our ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Harriet Mercer discusses how the history of knowledge production can help us understand whose voices are more privileged in the...
Digital HistoryFrom Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal LivesHamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania)8 May 2012 In this session of the Digital History seminar, streamed live on 8 May Hamish Maxwell-Stewart gave a fascinating talk about...
Histories of Home (now renamed Studies of Home)Practices of inhabitance in large houses: Comfort, privacy and status in Sydney, AustraliaRobyn Dowling (Macquarie University)12 October 2011 Since the 1980s house size has increased by around 50% in Sydney, Australia. ...
This week on Reviews in History we review History at the Crossroads. Australians and the Past by Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, a book which arose out of the authors’ study of the way Australians think about and use their past.Though the histories of all...