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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Women and the criminal justice system in Australia
DESCRIPTION:Women were outsiders in the criminal justice system for most of the nineteenth century. Unable to practice law\, sit on juries or serve in the police force\, they were subject to the operation of a masculine legal system. But this did not mean that they were without agency. Through the lives of three very different women\, this seminar explores women’s interactions with an evolving criminal justice system\, struggling to come to terms with new (and assertive) women as citizens. \nSarah Conquest was a working-class woman from inner Melbourne who engaged extensively with Melbourne’s Court system in the early twentieth century. Sarah navigated the Melbourne Police Courts in a wide variety of ways from the 1890s to the 1920s\, as witness\, as accused\, in an attempted prosecution\, in maintenance claims against her separated husband and for the state support of her two children. Later\, she was an inevitable presence as her younger son became entrenched in the criminal justice system. Sarah’s experiences suggest that working class women were not only the subject of state intervention\, but endeavoured — with varying success — to employ the Court system to their own advantage. \nMary Fortune was a pioneering crime writer in Australia\, and one of the first women to write police procedurals world-wide. Because she used the pseudonyms Waif Wander and W. W. her substantial audience did not know her identity–with good reason. She had committed bigamy when she married a policeman\, and her son George was a career criminal. That did not stop her earning a living with goldfields memoir\, female-centric journalism and of course genre\, for she survived as a freelance writer for over forty years in Melbourne. While George robbed banks and cracked safes\, his mother considered questions of reform and recidivism in her crimewriting. This contradictory and vital pair raise questions of gender roles\, crime and punishment\, and how the unconventional can be so easily erased from history. \nFanny Kate Boadicea Cocks was an unmarried\, 40-year-old South Australian woman who in 1915 became the first policewoman in the British Empire employed on the same salary as men\, and with the same powers of arrest. A strict Methodist and teetotaller who loved to shop\, Cocks walked the streets with a five-foot cane\, barking “Three feet apart!” at young couples caught canoodling in the Adelaide parklands. When she wasn’t rescuing young women from opium dens and finding jobs for wayward youths\, she was single-handedly cracking cases\, from drugs being smuggled aboard interstate coffin boats\, to the suspicious poisoning of children in a country town. Cocks’ work was so groundbreaking that it was reportedly copied by the New York Police Department and hailed as world’s best practice by the League of Nations. But despite earning an MBE and enjoying almost unrivalled renown in early 20th century Adelaide\, she has joined many once-prominent women in becoming lost to popular history. \nOur speakers: \nDr Jennifer Anderson is a managing lawyer at Women’s Legal Service Victoria. Her PhD examined the creation of the Children’s Court jurisdiction in Victoria in the early twentieth century. Her research explores the experiences of children and women in the early Victorian criminal justice and social welfare systems. \nLucy Sussex is an Honorary Fellow at La Trobe University. Her award-winning fiction includes novels and five short story collections. She has examined crime fiction’s origins in: Women Writers and Detectives in the Nineteenth Century (2012); Blockbuster (2015); and with Megan Brown\, Outrageous Fortunes (2025)\, about Mary and George Fortune. \nDr Lainie Anderson OAM is a writer whose 35-year career in journalism and public relations includes 17 years as a columnist with Adelaide’s Sunday Mail as well as stints at the Herald Sun and London’s The Times. In 2024\, Lainie completed a PhD with the University of South Australia\, researching the life of Kate Cocks\, the inspiration behind her best-selling historical cosy crime\, The Death of Dora Black. Lainie is vice-president of the History Council of South Australia\, board trustee with the History Trust of South Australia and a South Australian representative on the Federation of Australian Historical Societies. \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-women-and-the-criminal-justice-system-in-australia/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Thinking about the weather heatwaves and history in twentieth century Australia
DESCRIPTION:Heatwaves are forgotten killers as deaths occur silently\, in homes and institutions. In urban and temperate areas heatwaves evaporate from our memory\, erased by the drama of fire\, flood and storm.\nEnvironmental historians recognise the importance of climate as not simply a “backdrop against which history is played out” but an active force in Australian life. Through hospital records\, diaries and press reports\, we examine daily life in the mid-twentieth century as heatwaves unfold\, finding that decisions about sleep\, food\, housing\, clothing and social interaction\, as well as professional and domestic labour\, were disrupted and negotiated.\nBy uncovering the everyday practices by which people negotiate weather\, in urban\, regional and remote areas\, we reveal how heatwaves have been crucial in shaping the Australian idea and experience of climate. \nJoin us for three expert speakers and a topical panel discussion. \nSpeakers\nMANDY PAUL- ‘Fearful heat’: the January 1939 heatwave in Tarntanya/Adelaide\nMandy is a public historian and museum professional whose current research interests include the history of heatwaves in Tarntanya/Adelaide\, and the power of museum collections. She is Head of Collections at the History Trust of South Australia and a visiting Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. \nROCHELLE SCHOFF- Thermometer conscious: keeping an eye on the mercury in everyday life\nRochelle is a graduate researcher in environmental history in the Department of Archaeology and History\, La Trobe University. Her research focuses on drought and extreme weather and considers relationships between people and climate across regional southeastern Australia during the twentieth century. \nREBECCA JONES- Living with heat in arid Australia\nRebecca is an environmental historian with particular interest in Australian climate\, weather\, rural health and adaptation. She worked as a public historian in Victoria and at Monash University and the Australian National University. She is the author of Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia (Monash University Publishing). \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-thinking-about-the-weather-heatwaves-and-history-in-twentieth-century-australia/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Australian Fathering and Family Life: Learning Lessons from History
DESCRIPTION:Over the best part of a decade\, we’ve been researching the history of Australian fathering and family life\, from 1919 to the present day\, working alongside a team that’s also included John Murphy\, Johnny Bell and Mike Roper. Drawing upon hundreds of oral history interviews from several national collections\, as well as memoirs\, wartime letters and submissions to Royal Commissions and government inquiries\, we’ve explored how family life and fathering (and mothering) have been shaped by shifting structural forces and cultural expectations\, and how diverse Australian families have negotiated those expectations and forces in varying ways\, influenced by personal character and family circumstances (see our co-authored book\, Fathering: An Australian History\, MUP\, 2025). In this webinar we’ll each focus on an aspect of the research and reflect on lessons we’ve learnt from the past that might be useful for contemporary families and social policy. \nAl Thomson will introduce the project’s aims\, approaches and sources\, and note key findings about fathering and family life. \nKate Murphy will focus on the Royal Commission on Human Relationships (1974-77) and what we learnt from individual and institutional submissions about family life and fathering in the 1970s. \nJill Barnard will discuss how an oral history collection sheds light on the family lives of Forgotten Australians. \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-australian-fathering-and-family-life-learning-lessons-from-history/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Cold War Spies in Australia
DESCRIPTION:While the idea of Cold War-era spies often evokes cliched images of James Bond or John La Carré\, the reality of spies and surveillance in Cold War Australia was far stranger and far more interesting than any spy novel. Historians working with restricted or highly redacted material have increasingly shed light on these real life spy stories\, from installing bugs in apartment ceilings to rendezvous in cemeteries and draining a beer at the pub opposite the Soviet embassy. In this seminar\, two of Australia’s foremost intelligence historians will discuss espionage and counter-espionage in Australia during the Cold War\, share some of the fascinating stories they’ve encountered in their research\, and reflect on the unique challenges of creating history based on intelligence records. \nDr Ebony Nilsson is a lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University. She is a social historian whose work specialises in migrant communities’ experiences of politics and surveillance during the Cold War. Her first book\, Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury\, 2023) explores the transnational lives and experiences of Soviet ‘Displaced Persons’ who were resettled in Australia from Europe and China during the early Cold War and drew the attention of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation with their political engagement. Elsewhere\, she has published on the Sydney Russian community\, migrants who returned to the Soviet Union\, and the surveillance of migrants in relation to the Petrov Affair. \nDr Rhys Crawley Dr Rhys Crawley is a senior lecturer in history at UNSW Canberra\, and the author of the Official History of Australian Operations in Afghanistan\, 2005-2010. His research focuses on military and intelligence history\, with a particular emphasis on Australian military history\, the war in Afghanistan\, special operations\, First World War operational history\, military logistics\, espionage\, and domestic security intelligence. His books include Climax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the August Offensive (2014)\, The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO\, 1975-1989 (2016)\, Intelligence and the Function of Government (2018)\, Gallipoli: New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1915-16 (2018)\, and The Long Search for Peace: Observer Missions and Beyond\, 1947-2006 (2019). \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-cold-war-spies-in-australia/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Histories of Australian Childhood
DESCRIPTION:World Children’s Day\, celebrated on November 20 each year\, offers an opportunity to both look back on the history of childhood and of children’s rights and forward to the ways in which childhood is changing and child rights are contested. \nHow do historians investigate and recover the lives\, experiences and perspectives of children in the past? How have understandings and experiences of Australian childhood changed over time? And how and why have understandings of the rights\, roles and responsibilities of children changed? \nIn this Making Public Histories seminar\, three historians working at the cutting edge of research in this field will discuss histories of children and childhood in Australia. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS:\nDr Isobelle Barrett Meyering is a historian of feminism\, the family and childhood. She is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University\, which she joined in 2018 after completing her PhD at UNSW. Isobelle is the author of Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution 1969-1979 (Melbourne University Press\, 2022)\, and her work has featured in a wide range of Australian history and gender studies journals. She was the David Mitchell Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales in 2019 and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Humanities Research Centre in 2022. Isobelle is currently working on a history of children’s rights in modern Australia and\, in December 2024\, she will commence a new project\, ‘Child Citizens: Young People and Australian Democracy since 1945’\, supported by an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. \nCatherine Gay is a historian and curator. She completed her PhD in October 2024 and was a Hansen Trust PhD Scholar in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral research examined the experiences of Aboriginal and settler girls in nineteenth-century Australia using girl-produced material culture. Her research has won several awards\, including the Australian Historical Association’s 2022 Jill Roe Prize and the 2024 SHAPS Fellow’s Essay Prize. \nDr Emily Gallagher is a historian and research editor at the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University. Her PhD thesis was a history of the childhood imagination in Australia and won the Australian Historical Association’s Serle Award in 2024. Emily is currently working on a book for La Trobe University Press. \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-histories-of-australian-childhood/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240926T183000
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Oral History\, Migration\, Generations
DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together three esteemed speakers to share approaches to our theme of “Oral History\, Migration\, Generation”.\n\nAssociate Professor Francesco Ricatti is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the Australian National University\, where he is also the Deputy Head of the School of Literature\, Languages and Linguistics. He is a former Deputy and Acting Director of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre\, and a former President of Oral History Victoria. His research focuses of migration history\, transcultural studies\, migrant/Indigenous relations\, and creative and participatory approaches to the study of multiethnic communities. He will speak on “Migrants’ oral histories: key challenges and innovative approaches”.\n\n\nDr Alexandra Dellios is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University. Her latest book is Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley (Cambridge University Press\, 2022). She will speak on “Oral histories about migrant welfare scandals: the challenges of multicultural frames of remembrance”. \n  \nProfessor Tanya Evans is a Professor of History at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. She directs the Centre for Applied History and is President of the International Federation of Public History. Her research interests include family history\, memory and life-stories\, public history\, oral history\, cultural heritage\, history and sport\, community\, local and regional history\, histories of charities and NGOs\, history and the media and history in tourism. She will speak on “Sharing Memory and Identity Across Generations: An Interdisciplinary Memory Conversation and Oral History Project”. \n  \n\nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-oral-history-migration-generations/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Making Public Histories
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