Zara
@zarasaunders.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
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Zara
@zarasaunders.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Rape, law and stories of trauma: representations of sexual violence in The Australian Women’s Weekly, 1970–82
The 1970s ushered in a period of significant feminist activism, public debate and judicial reform on issues of rape and child sexual abuse. In this article, I examine how The Australian Women’s Wee...
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I am fortunate to have recently published my first journal article entitled Rape, law and stories of trauma: representations of sexual violence in The Australian Women’s Weekly, 1970–82 with the wonderful team at History Australia.
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Broken trust, a vital investigative journalism series from The Guardian on systematic failures by police and coroner's court in domestic violence deaths in Queensland
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Gail Karran recorded the savage beating that killed her. Shocking new evidence reveals how police failed her
Exclusive: A secret audio device recorded Bill Karran raping, hitting and choking his wife of 30 years – immediately after he was released, drunk, from a Queensland watch house
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Broken trust, a vital investigative journalism series from The Guardian on systematic failures by police and coroner's court in domestic violence deaths in Queensland
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Blink and December will be here. Summer, the end of the semester and a fresh new issue of History Australia 22(4) coming soon. Hear “From the editors” now! 💻 📘 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Blink and December will be here. Summer, the end of the semester and a fresh new issue of History Australia 22(4) coming soon. Hear “From the editors” now! 💻 📘 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.
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Emotions and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present edited by @dianagbarnes.bsky.social & @katieebarclay.bsky.social explores how letters have served as powerful tools for expressing, performing & shaping emotional experiences across cultures & historical contexts https://bit.ly/3IZVdhG
November 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Emotions and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present edited by @dianagbarnes.bsky.social & @katieebarclay.bsky.social explores how letters have served as powerful tools for expressing, performing & shaping emotional experiences across cultures & historical contexts https://bit.ly/3IZVdhG
I have been trying my hand at public history with a very informal social media ‘History & Tea’ series. In this video, I briefly explore the Australian Maternity Allowance Act 1912
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November 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I have been trying my hand at public history with a very informal social media ‘History & Tea’ series. In this video, I briefly explore the Australian Maternity Allowance Act 1912
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Congratulations to Zoe Smith (ANU), winner of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the annual AHA conference @austhistassoc.bsky.social Thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social for supporting the prize. Read the judges’ citation below
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Congratulations to Zoe Smith (ANU), winner of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the annual AHA conference @austhistassoc.bsky.social Thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfonline.bsky.social for supporting the prize. Read the judges’ citation below
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Congratulations to Mary Blight (Curtin), runner up of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the AHA conference. Read the judges’ citation below.
Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.
Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Congratulations to Mary Blight (Curtin), runner up of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the AHA conference. Read the judges’ citation below.
Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.
Thanks to all who submitted entries, to our two judges, and to Taylor & Francis for their ongoing support of this prize.
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Know anyone who would want to come work with me? 1 year position for someone with a HASS background (don’t need to be a programmer), working on a tool to search historical documents like colonial Hansard. unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
Research Assistant in Digital Humanities
Role type: Full Time; Fixed term until February 2027 Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Department: School of Computing and Information Systems Salary: Level A - $87,226 - $118...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Know anyone who would want to come work with me? 1 year position for someone with a HASS background (don’t need to be a programmer), working on a tool to search historical documents like colonial Hansard. unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
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If only someone had written a book about this www.panmacmillan.com/authors/agne...
November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
If only someone had written a book about this www.panmacmillan.com/authors/agne...
Re-sharing: Sexual Assault Support Services in Australia 🧵 If you need support please know there are services available & you are deserving of care!
Sexual Assault Support Services in Australia
Full Stop (available 24/7)
1800 385 578
1800 Respect (available 24/7)
1800 737 732
QLife (available 3pm-midnight)
1800 184 527
Rainbow Sexual, Domestic & Family Violence Helpline (available 24/7)
1800 497 212
13 Yarn (available 24/7)
13 92 76
Full Stop (available 24/7)
1800 385 578
1800 Respect (available 24/7)
1800 737 732
QLife (available 3pm-midnight)
1800 184 527
Rainbow Sexual, Domestic & Family Violence Helpline (available 24/7)
1800 497 212
13 Yarn (available 24/7)
13 92 76
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Re-sharing: Sexual Assault Support Services in Australia 🧵 If you need support please know there are services available & you are deserving of care!
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Thrilled that my former student Will Schultz has his first book out with @uncpress.bsky.social. Check it out!
Jesus Springs
In the years after World War II, American evangelicals flocked to the once-sleepy mountain town of Colorado Springs. Drawn by cheap property, beautiful scene...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Thrilled that my former student Will Schultz has his first book out with @uncpress.bsky.social. Check it out!
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This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!
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A gentleman skeleton at a ball asks a lady skeleton to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A gentleman skeleton at a ball asks a lady skeleton to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
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We're discussing youth sexuality in my 'Sex, medicine and society' tutorial tomorrow so wanted to flag these brilliant publications by @kristinwh0.bsky.social on unmarried women & contraception in Scotland and @carorusterholz.bsky.social's fantastic book on the Brook Centres! Links below (all OA).
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We're discussing youth sexuality in my 'Sex, medicine and society' tutorial tomorrow so wanted to flag these brilliant publications by @kristinwh0.bsky.social on unmarried women & contraception in Scotland and @carorusterholz.bsky.social's fantastic book on the Brook Centres! Links below (all OA).
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“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
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November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
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Our Nov issue is up, guest ed is Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social it’s devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia. It’s also the final issue for outgoing eds Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley–thanks for your excellent stewardship these last four years
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Our Nov issue is up, guest ed is Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social it’s devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia. It’s also the final issue for outgoing eds Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley–thanks for your excellent stewardship these last four years
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
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My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!
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Wonderful story from the #Emory African American Studies Department about Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s contributions to “The Gilded Age.”
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
Meet the historian ensuring ‘The Gilded Age’ drama rings true | Emory University | Atlanta GA
Emory professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar specializes in sharing the often-overlooked historical experiences of Black women in America. That includes using her talents to bring the characters in the HBO ...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Wonderful story from the #Emory African American Studies Department about Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s contributions to “The Gilded Age.”
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
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I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25
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Available March 2026 from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, but pre-order possible. The real editing has been done by Charlotte Greenhalgh and @clarecorbould.bsky.social
#histsci #histstm #STS
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
#histsci #histstm #STS
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
The Social Survey in Global Perspective, 1900-2020s | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
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November 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Available March 2026 from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, but pre-order possible. The real editing has been done by Charlotte Greenhalgh and @clarecorbould.bsky.social
#histsci #histstm #STS
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
#histsci #histstm #STS
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
Non-Fiction November Recommendations 📖📚
Ten books ranging from historical non-fiction, investigative journalism to memoir 🧵
Ten books ranging from historical non-fiction, investigative journalism to memoir 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Non-Fiction November Recommendations 📖📚
Ten books ranging from historical non-fiction, investigative journalism to memoir 🧵
Ten books ranging from historical non-fiction, investigative journalism to memoir 🧵
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Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026!
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026!
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
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My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
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I'm the director of an anti-sexual violence charity. This measure won't prevent harm, nor will it mean perpetrators will hand themselves into police. It will, however, make some victim-survivors less likely to report, and subject others - including children - to additional financial distress
Fugitives on the run and wanted for some of the most serious crimes and sexual offences could soon be stripped of their welfare payments.
Fears fugitive welfare cut-off will capture innocent people
Fugitives on the run and wanted for some of the most serious crimes and sexual offences could soon be stripped of their welfare payments.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I'm the director of an anti-sexual violence charity. This measure won't prevent harm, nor will it mean perpetrators will hand themselves into police. It will, however, make some victim-survivors less likely to report, and subject others - including children - to additional financial distress