📷 Coming up this Friday events.humanitix.com/ohv-symposium-… Another of our wonderful speakers is Dr Jordana Silverstein. Jordana is one of the co-authors of ‘Getting My Dignity Back: A report into Behind the Wire’ alongside Dr Sarah Strauven and Associate Professor Karen Block.

New survey: 97% of Australians want more action to stop extinctions and 72% want extra spending on the environment. Self Identified **Swinging** voters are even more concerned about #biodiversity than others. theconversation.com/97-of-australi… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

What did you collect when you were a child? How did that collection shape who you are? How might a nation's collections shape how we think about childhood? Who gets to say what we collect and what we leave behind? Collecting Childhood aims to find out! eventbrite.ie/e/collecting-c…

I’ve worked at University of Melbourne since 2006 (except for one year) on more different contracts than I could count and I’m sick of management trying to take advantage of us. Precarity is the pits! Proper pay and conditions for all! #WhyIStrike NTEU UniMelb Branch

‘Labour of Love’ installation, 2022, a visual depiction of the 650 times artist Sarah Maple fed her baby over three months to highlight the sheer volume of work that is expected of mothers and to challenge people to rethink the value of the time spent #WomensArt

Happy #InternationalFairyDay! 🧚‍♀️ This whimsical watercolour titled 'The Wedding' was produced by children's book illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888-1960). See a selection of her work in our #Imagine exhibition before it closes on Sunday 9 July. 🔗 ow.ly/B9So50OVkS4

Critical research in an age of escalating disasters - how can we better support families with very young children during crises?

I’m taking a wee break from Twitter to rest & rejuvenate

Get your local history project moving. Applications for the 2023-24 Local History Grants Program are now open! prov.vic.gov.au/community/gran… 📸Boys with hoops, Geelong Rd. VPRS 14517/P1, Box 26, H910

Many contemporary Australian women experience first-time motherhood as a profound transformation. But we have lacked research into the experience of becoming a mother & how its changed over time. This Thursday I'm excited to chat about my book Becoming a Mother with History Council of Victoria

Tonight! 👇

It's pretty special when you get to talk about a topic close to your heart with real, live humans in a *library*! This Saturday 4 Nov at 1pm I'm excited to be speaking about my book Becoming a Mother at Caroline Springs library. Free registration at: libraryevents.melton.vic.gov.au/event?id=23167

How are the catastrophes of colonialism & climate change intertwined in the present & the past? The Australian Centre University of Melbourne is hosting 'A Profound Reorganising of Things’ conference to explore these issues, 13-15 November 2023 arts.unimelb.edu.au/australiancent…

Our new issue of Studies in Oral History is now available open access! This is my last year as Joint Editor and I want to thank the many people who've supported my work, esp Skye Krichauff, @gwynjapan, Alexandra Mountain, @AlecaDell, Judy Hughes & the OHA Executive

In this new article, Anisa Puri & I argue oral historians must embrace flexibility to continue bearing witness to the impacts of climate crisis. Remote interviewing needn't sacrifice ethics or audio quality oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/journal/issue-…