Readers of Stephen Gapps’s work will be delighted to see this latest instalment of his quest to highlight the reality of Australia’s internal wars from 1788. Gapps’s first major contribution to this literature was The Sydney Wars (2018), which detailed the military conflicts between the Darug-speaking peoples of Sydney Harbour and the British newcomers from the First … Continue reading Reviewing Uprising by Stephen Gapps
Some things come in clusters. I was profiled by my associated organisations recently. Both here below by the Australian Historical Association and here by my employer ACU, where I discussed my upbringing and life in Canberra. And here is a scholarly review of many of my works.
This is a loooong time coming, but finally here is our three-part podcast on Unsettling Portraits! I undertook this with my good friend Michael McDonnell a few years ago. We interviewed our friends through 2023. We were lucky to have two wonderful sequential producers, Helene Thomas and Catherine Freyne; with executive producer History Lab, Impact … Continue reading Unsettling Portraits
Last year I became the Vice President of the Australian Historical Association, which is a society increasingly important to me as an agent for advocating for History in Australia. Recently we linked with our counterpart in the UK, The Royal Historical Society. They invited the President, Michelle Arrow, and me to write the opening blog … Continue reading Connecting the AHA
Another review for Inside Story, this one allowed me to let off some steam about what is happening in the US right now, what I always worry about for the humanities, and what I think of people who lean into profiteering arguments. Nussbaum reissued her 2010 book Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities … Continue reading On the Humanities, Profit, and Martha Nussbaum
For Australia Day 2025, I wrote this short piece on The Great Counterfactual of Australian History for the Australian Academy of the Humanities' blog. It was a shortened version of a presentation I gave at the Australian Academy of Humanities' 2024 annual symposium - a recording of that, with Prof. Megan Davis, Prof. Mark McKenna, … Continue reading The Great Counterfactual of Australian History
The AHA's journal History Australia (where I was editor for 5.5 years) published a wonderful forum on the future of history in late 2024 (it starts with this article). My small contribution was to reflect on the shitshow of last year's Spill n Fill at ACU - and lessons about what to nurture most in … Continue reading Reflections on the Hunger Games
Last year I was delighted to become a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, largely because I worked there in the secretariat about 18 years ago or so....And also because I hugely admire their advocacy work for our sector. My first (wonderful) task for them was interview a more senior fellow of my choice. … Continue reading A Fellow’s Fellow
Published in Journal of American History, a short review of a book that traversed some similar ground to my first book. "When the Italian historian Peter Martyr observed in Spain in 1519 a group of visiting Totonacs from Mexico, he was struck by two things....." Continue reading in the file below. pennockDownload
Another review for wonderful Inside Story. Here I am reviewing a new book on Gauguin that coincides with a new show on Gauguin, controversies and all. "Nicholas Thomas’s latest book offers a provocative perspective on two of Paul Gauguin’s most abiding themes — women and Polynesia." To continue reading, head on over to the piece … Continue reading Reframing Gauguin
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