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My Dad (holding a hand bag) and Lenin at a wedding in Moscow in the 1970s. He said they were hopeful days. Long gone I guess.

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It’s here ! Proud to be part of this collection . On History, Ethics, Art and Chinese Australia

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There's something about holding an actual copy of your book that makes it all feel real. Thanks to everyone who nourished this piece of work and thanks to @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social for making it look lovely. Official publication is in May. You can order a copy here: www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-y... 🗃️

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I'm as proud of this as anything we've done.

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“The ‘productivity success story’ may be just a story indeed, but stories are powerful, maybe even dangerous” An insightful new article from @joshuablackjb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1449...

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Parched waterways, dead fish and trees ready to give up: historic big dry grips South Australia - by @petrastock.bsky.social and @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Wonderful to see @mercierpress.bsky.social will reissue Seamus Murphy’s Stone Mad, an effortless classic of Irish memoir, a vivid picture of Cork as an apprentice, sent to the pub with a bucket to get morning pints for the men, and a remarkable study of his art. www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

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Just because it is Tuesday I will post a shot of the extremely rare "Aardvark Moon"! What I went out for was an image of a full moon rising with reflections on Lake Ontario. I wasn't expecting this. More details on Alt text #photography #EastCoastKin

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Going through a divorce is hard. I still have so much respect for my ex husband. I wish things had been different. I wish things had been fine. My friend Josh, happily married to his husband Connor, read this to me yesterday in his office when I was sad. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44703/...

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Hot off the press and open access, Felix Driver's 'What Have We Here? Re-discovering Colonialism at the British Museum' (prompted by the exhibition there by Hew Locke, Isabel Seligman & Indra Khanna). Part of a special issue on 'Geography at Large'.

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This Thursday is the AHA's workshop on engaging with the media! Haven't yet registered? There's still time! Follow the link to sign up and learn from the experts on disseminating academic research through the media. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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I spoke at yesterday’s Vigil for Democracy at Columbia. Here is an excerpt.

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Powerful work on show at Sydney's MCA by Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, incl this piece 'Single File, 2019/2025' – a filing cabinet drawer presented like a coffin, labelled with the artist's biometrics. Colonisers' classification and archival systems as weapons of oppression and dehumanisation

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Saw a koala in the wild on the weekend while searching for the locations of some of my Chinese Australian court cases for my book. Made my day my week my year . Galah said hello too .

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Essential reading, by Bhandar and Toscano on Trump’s “real estate ontology”, the end of presumed relations btw sovereignty, territory, and property; and the place of Gaza in this naked imperium proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

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Our Sydney Writers' Festival panel event has now SOLD OUT We have now created a waitlist to hear historians Sophie Loy-Wilson, Yves Rees and Peter Hobbins discuss overlooked narratives to challenge traditional views of what migration means for Australian history buff.ly/cLQV23o

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"You're not alone in thinking that Australia is getting taken for a ride. "Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's fossil fuel exports." @richarddenniss.bsky.social with @punterspolitics.bsky.social for our Big Gas event in Newcastle. #auspol

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On @australiainstitute.org.au live blog: why Peter Dutton is wrong to use China's example for nuclear power here. Like nuclear powered submarines, just because something is "best in the world" doesn't mean it's the best option for Australia.

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Meanwhile in Australia, south of Sydney, my dad and sea, the beautiful sea. A few weekends ago after I dropped my kid at a school camp.

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Capturing one of my favourite Victorian street signs glistening in the evening sun. It’s for the Toxteth Co-operative Provident Society, which was founded in 1891 & this sign is at the bottom of Eastdale Road in Wavertree, Liverpool. Its motto reads ‘Each for All and All for Each’. Wise words.

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My grandmother’s favourite

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This is a thousand times more of a threat than the economic devastation we’re all reasonably enough distraught about out. The constitutional order as we’ve known it is hanging by a fraying thread that trump is holding a straight razor to with no one even reaching to withdraw his hand.

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Trump's tariffs set in historical context by James Stafford in the @lrb.co.uk. Ending with the point that 'Trumpian protectionism doesn’t follow its 19th-century antecedents' and a final line that says it all: 'It’s like nothing anybody’s ever seen before.' www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

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What a refugee camp reveals about economics economist.com/finance-and-...

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I’ll never not be slightly perturbed by this choice of name for a restaurant.

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Renewed respect for this now more than a decade old, flaming critique of ‘trauma’ and the politics of war commemoration by Christina Twomey. A must read for historians of #war and #memory 🔥 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Book give away! To celebrate my arrival here, I’m giving away two copies of my fab new book, “Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World.”tinyurl.com/98728bsh To enter: follow me, share this post, and tag 3 pirate-curious friends 🏴‍☠️ By 1 December 🛶 #newbook #bookgiveaway #twitterstorians

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How did people in the 19thc decide if birds were intelligent? Find out in my new article "Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America" doi.org/10.1177/0073... (1/3)

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This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.

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Environment and History 31.2 is available online now! This is a special issue entitled 'Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment,' edited by @gpetrick.bsky.social & @gfitz.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31/2 #envhist @eseh.bsky.social

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today in beautiful fabrics: i really like this off-white linen/wool herringbone. a very nice texture that will stand out in a subtle way

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Personally, I feel incredibly proud of the common people who tirelessly exercised their right to peaceful protest over these past four months, and of the eight justices who upheld the law with sound judgment, proving that institutions can do their job when they are needed most.

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Analysing Ann Curthoys diaries from the Freedom Ride (Australia) in my Writing Race class today, our week on Race and Archives. Excited to see what the students will say. aiatsis.gov.au/collection/f...

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I've thought about this article every day of this goddamn administration

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Last week I was lamenting the lack of graffiti etc speaking to the moment in NYC. Today on the subway

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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

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Excited to be presenting at AAS in Asia this year in Kathmandu. Program out now aasinktm.soscbaha.org

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www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/02/w...

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Our new edited book 'Forced Migration' is out in ebook form, with hardcopies coming very soon! Many thanks to my tireless co-editors @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social & @evansmithhist.bsky.social - check it out here: brill.com/display/titl... @dgb-history.bsky.social

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My book on the Ethics of Immigration. www.eerdmans.com/978146744880...

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Sometimes a photo captures it all. My mum and my daughter. Truly so many traits skipped a generation and they are two peas on a pod: strong, organised, sharp, generous, calm and a little bit intimidating. My favorite people.

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