Emily Gallagher
@as-ruby.bsky.social
Historian & Editor | Playtime (La Trobe, 2025) | Australian Dictionary of Biography | Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
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Delighted that the University of Canberra has announced my appointment as Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, and Director of UC's new Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas. Looking forward to developing this exciting initiative from early 2026. www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/med...
UC launches newly established Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas and appointment of inaugural director
UC to establish the Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas, and Prof Frank Bongiorno AM to take up Donald Horne Professorship as Centre director.
www.canberra.edu.au
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Delighted that the University of Canberra has announced my appointment as Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, and Director of UC's new Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas. Looking forward to developing this exciting initiative from early 2026. www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/med...
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My colleagues and I are embarking on the first history of grandparenting in Australia, you can be involved too grandparentsaustralia.net
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My colleagues and I are embarking on the first history of grandparenting in Australia, you can be involved too grandparentsaustralia.net
Excited to be part of this incredible team writing the first history of grandparenting in Australia! grandparentsaustralia.net
Grandparenting tells us much about our history. It’s important to preserve these stories
Grandparents can play a fundamental role in families, yet they have often been overlooked in Australian history.
theconversation.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Excited to be part of this incredible team writing the first history of grandparenting in Australia! grandparentsaustralia.net
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The Canberra Writers Festival begins this week (22-26 October 2025). I'll be in conversation with David Day on Bob Hawke on Sunday, but it is only one event in a rich program! Tickets available for many events at multiple venues. Check them out at: tickets.canberrawritersfestival.com.au/Events
October 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The Canberra Writers Festival begins this week (22-26 October 2025). I'll be in conversation with David Day on Bob Hawke on Sunday, but it is only one event in a rich program! Tickets available for many events at multiple venues. Check them out at: tickets.canberrawritersfestival.com.au/Events
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Hugh Mackay - one of our wisest - and the splendid Alex Sloan are in conversation at the ANU on Monday, 3 November at 6pm on Hugh's beaut
"Just Saying: Exploring twenty-five remarkable quotations to enlighten, challenge and inspire." Free, but bookings at:
events.humanitix.com/meet-the-aut...
"Just Saying: Exploring twenty-five remarkable quotations to enlighten, challenge and inspire." Free, but bookings at:
events.humanitix.com/meet-the-aut...
Meet the author - Hugh Mackay
Get tickets on Humanitix - Meet the author - Hugh Mackay. Kambri Cinema (Lowitja O'Donoghue Cultural Centre), Tangney Rd, Acton ACT 2601, Australia. Monday 3rd November 2025. Find event information.
events.humanitix.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Hugh Mackay - one of our wisest - and the splendid Alex Sloan are in conversation at the ANU on Monday, 3 November at 6pm on Hugh's beaut
"Just Saying: Exploring twenty-five remarkable quotations to enlighten, challenge and inspire." Free, but bookings at:
events.humanitix.com/meet-the-aut...
"Just Saying: Exploring twenty-five remarkable quotations to enlighten, challenge and inspire." Free, but bookings at:
events.humanitix.com/meet-the-aut...
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Much looking forward to this conversation with David Day on his new Bob Hawke biography at the Canberra Writers Festival (Museum of Australian Democracy) on Sunday, 26 October. Bookings for all events available at: It's going to be a brilliant Festival! www.canberrawritersfestival.com.au
October 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Much looking forward to this conversation with David Day on his new Bob Hawke biography at the Canberra Writers Festival (Museum of Australian Democracy) on Sunday, 26 October. Bookings for all events available at: It's going to be a brilliant Festival! www.canberrawritersfestival.com.au
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Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.
Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!
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Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!
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UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project
The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run.
Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.
Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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*Call for papers!* The Children’s History Society, Fifth Biennial Conference
'Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth '
To be held at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026.
Details here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
'Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth '
To be held at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026.
Details here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
www.histchild.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
*Call for papers!* The Children’s History Society, Fifth Biennial Conference
'Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth '
To be held at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026.
Details here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
'Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth '
To be held at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026.
Details here: www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
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Spotted in the wild at the State Library of NSW bookshop - congrats Emily @as-ruby.bsky.social
#books #historyofchildhood #history #huzzah
#books #historyofchildhood #history #huzzah
October 3, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Spotted in the wild at the State Library of NSW bookshop - congrats Emily @as-ruby.bsky.social
#books #historyofchildhood #history #huzzah
#books #historyofchildhood #history #huzzah
So delighted to see 'Playtime' reviewed by Marian Quartly alongside 'Fathering' and its stellar collective of authors!
'Gallagher writes with an elegant assurance.' inside.org.au/authors-of-t...
Authors of their own lives? • Marian Quartly
How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia
inside.org.au
September 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
So delighted to see 'Playtime' reviewed by Marian Quartly alongside 'Fathering' and its stellar collective of authors!
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Flinders University has abolished the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Another destructive restructure is about to happen.
September 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Flinders University has abolished the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Another destructive restructure is about to happen.
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Join us at 6pm Tuesday 23 September at UTS in Sydney for this one! Places still available.
events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...
events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...
A New Australian Politics: Rupture or Realignment
We explore the outcomes of the 2025 Australian federal election and consider whether it signals a fundamental rupture or realignment in the political landscape
events.humanitix.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Join us at 6pm Tuesday 23 September at UTS in Sydney for this one! Places still available.
events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...
events.humanitix.com/a-new-austra...
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Canberra friends, don't miss this opportunity to celebrate the launch of brilliant childhood historian Emily Gallagher's new book!
In Canberra next week? Come along and celebrate the launch of Playtime 🧸
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
Book Launch of Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher
Book Launch of Playtime : A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher
events.humanitix.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Canberra friends, don't miss this opportunity to celebrate the launch of brilliant childhood historian Emily Gallagher's new book!
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In her new book, Dr Emily Gallagher, a historian at the ANU, charts the history of childhood play and imagination in pre-war Australia — bringing age to the centre of historical analysis as a critical category alongside class, gender and ethnicity.
Read 👉 humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
Read 👉 humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
Worlds of power & impossibility — taking children’s history seriously – Australian Academy of the Humanities
Wattle fairies, talking magpies, excursions to the South Pole, unbreakable dolls, flesh-eating monsters, toddler kings, and underground playgrounds. Is there anywhere the childhood imagination cannot ...
humanities.org.au
September 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
In her new book, Dr Emily Gallagher, a historian at the ANU, charts the history of childhood play and imagination in pre-war Australia — bringing age to the centre of historical analysis as a critical category alongside class, gender and ethnicity.
Read 👉 humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
Read 👉 humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
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In Canberra next week? Come along and celebrate the launch of Playtime 🧸
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
Book Launch of Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher
Book Launch of Playtime : A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher
events.humanitix.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
In Canberra next week? Come along and celebrate the launch of Playtime 🧸
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
In Canberra next week? Come along and celebrate the launch of Playtime 🧸
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
Book Launch of Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher
Book Launch of Playtime : A History of Australian Childhood by Emily Gallagher
events.humanitix.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
In Canberra next week? Come along and celebrate the launch of Playtime 🧸
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
Delighted to have Play School actress & singer Justine Clarke launch the book!
🗓️ 22 September, 6pm
📍 ANU Harry Hartog
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For a project I am working on - how do you think John Howard fundamentally changed Australia - what did he do that we are still feeling the effects of? (Housing, immigration debates, loss of workers rights, black arm band of history, jingoism etc)
Really interested in your takes.
Really interested in your takes.
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
For a project I am working on - how do you think John Howard fundamentally changed Australia - what did he do that we are still feeling the effects of? (Housing, immigration debates, loss of workers rights, black arm band of history, jingoism etc)
Really interested in your takes.
Really interested in your takes.
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Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure.
Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.
Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure.
Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.
Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.
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Please sign and share this petition for ANU Council to:
🛑Stop forced redundancies
🛑Stop proposed school/center closures and amalgamations
🛑Sack the Chancellor and VC
It’s open not only to students and staff but also to all members of the broader ANU community.
nteu.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
🛑Stop forced redundancies
🛑Stop proposed school/center closures and amalgamations
🛑Sack the Chancellor and VC
It’s open not only to students and staff but also to all members of the broader ANU community.
nteu.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
Petition to ANU Council
In support of our petition, we observe that:
• ANU Council has the entire control and management of the University and is required to act in all matters concerning the ANU in the way it thinks w...
nteu.informz.net
August 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Please sign and share this petition for ANU Council to:
🛑Stop forced redundancies
🛑Stop proposed school/center closures and amalgamations
🛑Sack the Chancellor and VC
It’s open not only to students and staff but also to all members of the broader ANU community.
nteu.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
🛑Stop forced redundancies
🛑Stop proposed school/center closures and amalgamations
🛑Sack the Chancellor and VC
It’s open not only to students and staff but also to all members of the broader ANU community.
nteu.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...
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ANU School of History invites applications for a PhD scholarship to research the Communist Party of Australia, 1970-91. The project continues the work of the late Prof Stuart Macintyre and is valued at AU$100,000 over a four year period.
programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/9520...
#phavictas
programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/9520...
#phavictas
August 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
ANU School of History invites applications for a PhD scholarship to research the Communist Party of Australia, 1970-91. The project continues the work of the late Prof Stuart Macintyre and is valued at AU$100,000 over a four year period.
programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/9520...
#phavictas
programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/9520...
#phavictas
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My book is available for preorder @melvillehouse.bsky.social!
It’s about The Hite Report—the 50M-copy feminist sexology bestseller—its wild, visionary author Shere Hite and culture wars then and now. Out April '26!
mhpbooks.com/books/the-bo...
It’s about The Hite Report—the 50M-copy feminist sexology bestseller—its wild, visionary author Shere Hite and culture wars then and now. Out April '26!
mhpbooks.com/books/the-bo...
August 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My book is available for preorder @melvillehouse.bsky.social!
It’s about The Hite Report—the 50M-copy feminist sexology bestseller—its wild, visionary author Shere Hite and culture wars then and now. Out April '26!
mhpbooks.com/books/the-bo...
It’s about The Hite Report—the 50M-copy feminist sexology bestseller—its wild, visionary author Shere Hite and culture wars then and now. Out April '26!
mhpbooks.com/books/the-bo...
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ANU and the Search Foundation are offering a PhD with $100,000 top up to complete the final (1970-91) volume of the history of the Communist Party of Australia. 👇
Calling for Applicants to the Australian National University-SEARCH Foundation PhD Scholarship | School of History
history.cass.anu.edu.au
August 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
ANU and the Search Foundation are offering a PhD with $100,000 top up to complete the final (1970-91) volume of the history of the Communist Party of Australia. 👇
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I am one of the staff members impacted by this. I truly thought when I first read the email that it might mean my job is safe because I have not yet been made redundant, but, no, I am still facing the axe. It was a maliciously cruel email to send.
Tough time for many at ANU. At around midday yesterday staff received a university-wide email. The language was ambiguous and could be read to say all forced redundancies would stop. I received many messages from people being forced out. Were they now safe?
August 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I am one of the staff members impacted by this. I truly thought when I first read the email that it might mean my job is safe because I have not yet been made redundant, but, no, I am still facing the axe. It was a maliciously cruel email to send.
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Chancel Culture, David Pope
August 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Chancel Culture, David Pope
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