History Lab || exploring the gaps between us and the past || This series is made in collaboration by the Australian Centre for Public History and Impact Studios at the University of Technology, Sydney.
History Lab
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History Lab || exploring the gaps between us and the past || This series is made in collaboration by the Australian Centre for Public History and Impact Studios at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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July 22, 2026
52. Field Notes 2: When the War is Over - Military Histories
<p>Military history in Australia carries a weight that few other subfields do — it sits at the intersection of popular memory, national identity, and institutional commemoration in ways that make it both unusually accessible and unusually prone to distortion. Maggie Hutchison and Tom Rogers make a case for what serious military history looks like. It demands an active voice — soldiers don’t “lay down their lives”; they are killed by someone, with something, for reasons that can be named. And it insists on the connections between home front and battlefield that have too often been treated as separate stories.</p><p>The conversation includes the Australian War Memorial’s 2022 decision to reverse its long-standing position about the frontier wars — a change, Rogers argues, that came directly from decades of academic research, not popular opinion. They discuss the centenary wave and its aftermath, the digitisation of First World War records, and the way genealogy pulls people into military history and then requires them to understand the broader context.</p><h3>Voices</h3><p><strong>Maggie Hutchison</strong> is a Senior Lecturer in History at UNSW Canberra. Her research covers war art, commemoration, and the long-term costs of military service. She is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on veteran suicide.</p><p><strong>Tom Rogers</strong> is a historian in the Military History section at the Australian War Memorial. His research focuses on the colonial period and the frontier wars. He is currently working on soldiers’ letters published in newspapers during the South African War.</p><h3>Credits</h3><p>Recorded and edited by Lachlan D’Acourt. Executive producers: Michelle Arrow and Kate Fullagar. Executive producer, Impact Studios: Sarah Gilbert. History Lab is made by UTS Impact Studios and the Australian Centre for Public History. Field Notes is made in collaboration with the Australian Historical Association.</p><h3>Further Reading</h3><ul><li>Joan Beaumont, <a href="https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Joan-Beaumont-Broken-Nation-9781760111304" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War</a> (2013)</li><li>Margaret MacMillan, <a href="https://www.hachette.com.au/margaret-macmillan/paris-1919" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World</a> (2019)</li><li>Evan S. Connell, <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/son-of-the-morning-star-9781844137633" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Son of the Morning Star</a> (1984)</li><li>Andrew Gordon, T<a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-rules-of-the-game-9780141980331" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">he Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command</a> (1996)</li></ul><br/>
July 8, 2026
52. Field Notes 2: Gendering the Past - Feminist Histories
<p>Feminist history in Australia grew out of the women’s liberation movement and the theoretical challenge it posed to what counted as a proper subject for historical inquiry. Marilyn Lake and Clare Corbould trace that history from Kay Daniels’s 1975 national archival survey through the shift from women’s history to gender history, the writing of Creating a Nation (1994), the history wars of the 1990s, and the transnational networks that took Australian feminist historians well beyond the local debates. Lake describes a moment of liberation in those years: realising that if Australian male historians wouldn’t engage with feminist scholarship seriously, there were feminist historians across the world who would.</p><p>The conversation is candid about the paradox that remains. Women now make up roughly half of employed historians in Australia, and women have often led the Australian Historical Association. But national histories — written by men of both progressive and conservative persuasions — continue to treat women as peripheral.</p><h3>Voices</h3><p><strong>Marilyn Lake</strong> is Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne and one of the founding figures of feminist history in Australia. Her books include <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11784291?keyword=grimshaw%20lake%20creating%20nation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Creating a Nation</a> (co-authored with Patricia Grimshaw, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly), <a href="https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Marilyn-Lake-Getting-Equal-9781865081373" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Getting Equal</a> and <a href="https://www.mup.com.au/books/drawing-the-global-colour-line/9780522874372" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Drawing the Global Colour Line</a> (with Henry Reynolds). She is currently working on a project about Australia’s founding ideals in 1901.</p><p><strong>Clare Corbould</strong> is a Professor of History at Monash University. Her research focuses on African American history and its transnational dimensions. She is currently writing about Sally Hemings and the history of the American Revolution.</p><h3>Credits</h3><p>Recorded and edited by Lachlan D’Acourt. Executive producers: Michelle Arrow and Kate Fullagar. Executive producer, Impact Studios: Sarah Gilbert. History Lab is made by UTS Impact Studios and the Australian Centre for Public History. Field Notes is made in collaboration with the Australian Historical Association.</p><h3>Further Reading</h3><ul><li>Kate Millett, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Politics" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sexual Politics</a> (1970)</li><li>Deborah Gray White, <a href="https://archive.org/details/arntiwoman00debo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South</a> (1985)</li><li>Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath, and Marian Quartly, <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11784291?keyword=grimshaw%20lake%20creating%20nation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Creating a Nation</a> (1994)</li><li>Gail Bederman, <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3683791.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Manliness and Civilisation</a> (1995)</li></ul><br/>
June 24, 2026
51. Field Notes 1: Ending Empires - Decolonisation Histories
<p>What does decolonisation mean as a field of historical inquiry — and what does it demand of the historians who work in it? Jon Piccini and Angela Woollacott approach these questions from different generations and starting points. Woollacott came to postcolonial thinking through the new imperial history in 1990s American universities, where the field felt genuinely revolutionary. Piccini came through the study of 1960s transnational activism, and found his way to decolonisation proper only when a supervisor’s question stuck with him long enough to send him back to sources he thought he’d already exhausted.</p><p>They discuss what a decolonial approach actually requires: taking positionality seriously, working across archives that are not equally preserved, and refusing to let the boundaries of the logo map define Australian history. The conversation moves through the historiography — Frantz Fanon, CLR James, the landmark work of Tracy Banivanua Mar on decolonisation as an oceanic movement — and into practical questions about how the history is made. Piccini describes working with Papua New Guinean archives and the irreducible privilege involved in that encounter, while Woollacott discusses the seminal work of Henry Reynolds and the influence of the <a href="https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Colonial Frontiers Massacres Map</a> as presenting incontrovertible evidence of frontier violence. </p><h3>Voices</h3><p><strong>Jon Piccini</strong> is a Senior Lecturer in History at Australian Catholic University in Brisbane/Meanjin. His work spans transnational activism, human rights history, and Australia’s colonial relationships in the Pacific. He is completing a book on Australia and decolonisation.</p><p><strong>Angela Woollacott</strong> is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the School of History at the Australian National University, on Ngunnawal Country. Her books include <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/settler-society-in-the-australian-colonies-9780199641802" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Settler Society in the Australian Colonies</a> (2015) and a <a href="https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Angela-Woollacott-Don-Dunstan-9781760631819" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">biography of Don Dunstan</a>. Her current project examines Australians who shaped the intellectual and political challenge to colonialism in the mid-twentieth century.</p><h3>Credits</h3><p>Recorded and edited by Lachlan D’Acourt. Executive producers: Michelle Arrow and Kate Fullagar. Executive producer, Impact Studios: Sarah Gilbert. History Lab is made by UTS Impact Studios and the Australian Centre for Public History. Field Notes is made in collaboration with the Australian Historical Association.</p><h3>Further Reading</h3><ul><li>Tracy Banivanua Mar, <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decolonisation-and-the-pacific/06DC5D6735164A6BC291E0414F8748BC" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Decolonisation and the Pacific</a> (2016)</li><li>CLR James, <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-black-jacobins-9780241562079" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Black Jacobins</a> (1938; rev. ed. 1963)</li><li>Shannyn Palmer, <a href="https://www.mup.com.au/books/unmaking-angas-downs/9780522878394" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Unmaking Angus Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station</a> (2022) — Prime Minister’s History Prize winner</li><li>Jessica Urwin, <a href="https://www.mup.com.au/books/contaminated-country/9780522882162" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Contaminated Country</a> (forthcoming, Melbourne University Press)</li><li>Henry Reynolds, <a href="https://unsw.press/books/looking-from-the-north/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Looking from the North</a> (2024)</li></ul><br/><p></p>
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