Some great online history resources were shared by historians tweeting the recent Australian Historical Association conference (#OzHA2017). I have trawled through a lot of links to bring to you some of the useful and interesting history resources that caught my eye.
Conference Papers
Several presenters have very generously shared their conference papers online:
- Bruce Baskerville, ‘The Centenary of the House of Windsor: 1917-2017‘.
- Nicolas Ferns, ‘Tanzanian Thinking: Self-reliance, Development, and the Decolonisation of Papua New Guinea‘ via Academia.
- Jon Piccini, ‘Without distinction of any kind: human rights in 1940s Australia‘ via Academia.
Blogging the Conference
Tweeting a conference is great, but blogging a conference adds depth that is hard to convey in a series of 140 character tweets. I have not found any blog posts about the conference written during the event, but some have been written after the conference:
- ‘Allegiances Beyond Borders: South Australia’s Journey from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor‘: by Bruce Baskerville’s about his #OzHA2017 paper
- ‘OzHA 2017 Recap‘ by Emma Kluge
- ‘‘Wild Jill’: Notes from a plenary session celebrating Australian historian Jill Roe‘ published on the blog of the Australian Women’s History Network
- ‘AHA 2017: PHA NSW & ACT member contributions‘ published on the blog of the Professional Historians Association of NSW & ACT
- ‘Tips for conference organisers: Experiences from the AWHN stream of the AHA‘ published on the Australian Womens’ History Network blog.
I will add to this list if any other posts are written in the next few weeks.
Websites
The conference saw the premiere of a new Australian history website, the introduction of a new search facility on another, and the sharing of some very good Australian history resources:
- Map of ‘Colonial Frontier Massacres in Eastern Australia 1788-1872: project led by Professor Lyndall Ryan and launched during the conference. See ‘Some Aboriginal History at #OzHA2017‘ Storify for tweets during the launch and media coverage of the launch.
- Historic Hansard with new search facility: search Australian Federal Parliament speeches between 1901 and 1980. Website constructed by Associate Professor Tim Sherratt.
- Stories in Stone: an annotated history and guide to the collections and papers of Ernest Westlake (1855-1922): website developed by Rebe Taylor, with Michael Jones and Gavan McCarthy.
- The Prosecution Project Database: Search historical criminal trials in any state of Australia. Project led by Professor Mark Finnane.
- Screening the Past: A peer reviewed (open access) journal of screen history, theory and criticism.
- Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- Honest History
- Serving our Country: a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the defence of Australia: led by Professor Mick Dodson
- Australian Federal Election Speeches: a project from the Museum of Australian Democracy.
- 2017 Australian Historical Association Conference website: with the conference program, abstracts and more.
History Blogs
Relevant blog posts were shared during the conference. Instead of listing each post, I thought I would list the blogs shared and leave it to you to browse through the posts:
- Australian Women’s History Network Blog
- Australian Historical Association Early Career Researchers’ Blog
- University of Melbourne Archives Blog
- Conviction Blog: stories from a nineteenth-century prison by Helen Rodgers, from Liverpool John Moores University.
- Playing the Past: a light-hearted weekly look at the history of Aussie Rules football by Mary Tomsic and Jordy Silverstein from the University of Melbourne.
Conference Sessions Storified
Over the last week I have collected the abstracts, brief biographies and tweets about some of the presenters and their sessions. Instead of dumping all these in one gigantically long Storify, I have divided them up into readable stories which I hope you will find interesting and useful. Today I published one on the Digital History sessions.
Keynotes and Plenaries
- #OzHA2017 Keynote: Colonial Cosmopolitanism by Dane Kennedy
- #OzHA2017 Plenary: Imperial Entanglements of Faith, Emotion and Affect (Associate Professor Jane Haggis, Emeritus Professor Margaret Allen and Professor Fiona Paisley)
- #OzHA2017 Keynote 2: When the War is Over (Professor Christina Twomey)
- #OzHA2017 ‘Wild Jill’ Plenary
- #OzHA2017 Plenary 2: Re-entangling Capitalism, Colonialism and the Environment (Professor Grace Karskens, Dr Hannah Forsyth, Dr Julie McIntyre)
- #OzHA2017 Plenary 3: The State of the Discipline (Associate Professor Martin Crotty, Dr Paul Sendziuk, Professor Stuart Macintyre, Tyson Retz)
Concurrent Sessions:
- Histories of the Pacific at #OzHA2017
- Histories of Chinese at the 2017 Australian Historical Association Conference
- Some Aboriginal History at #OzHA2017
- Digital History at #OzHA2017
Conclusion
I have not been able to look at every link that was shared during the conference, but I have looked at quite a few of them. If you think I have missed a good resource shared during the conference, please let me know.
And while you are here, why not have a look at Stumbling Through History Links, my directory of over 200 useful history resources for people researching Australian history. I am hoping to eventually set it up as a separate website, but for the time being, you can Ctl + F to find some useful stuff!
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Further Reading and Resources
This is the fourth in a series of posts about the 2017 Australian Historical Association Conference. Read the others:
- Post 1: ‘Australian History Conference Generates Record Twitter Stream‘
- Post 2: ‘The Big Sessions at the 2017 Australian Historical Association Conference‘
- Post 3: ‘Topics That Interest Historians in Australia‘
You can still access some resources about the 2017 Australian Historical Association conference:
- Download the conference program, abstracts and author biographies from the conference website.
- Access the archived tweets from the conference.
- Check out the network diagram of the conference tweets.
- Find out more about the Australian Historical Association.
- If you want to keep up with the latest discussions and news about history, subscribe to my #OzHA2017 Tweeps list.
I have been blogging about conferences since 2012:
- How did the #OzHA Twitter hashtag start? Read about the history of the #OzHA hashtag in one of my conference posts from 2015.
- Read about Jill Roe’s cameo appearance amongst a group of #OzHA tweeps at the 2012 conference in my review of her Miles Franklin biography (hint: just search the page for ‘Aside’ which is towards the end of the review).
- Browse through my posts about the Australian Historical Association Conferences since 2012.
- The first conference I blogged was the American Historical Association conference of 2012. Read ‘Nearly There: Experiencing a Conference Online‘ and read the comment by journalist, Jennifer Howard, about why journalists value people who tweet and blog conferences.
germac4 says
Many thanks for putting together & sharing so much information, I enjoy looking through your links.
Lisa Hill says
Phew, it’s going to take me a while to explore all these links, thanks very much:)
artandarchitecturemainly says
I am editing the History Carnival this July and August, and wondered if you would like to nominate the best posts that have appeared in any of your favourite history blogs, including your own. Perhaps your readers have a favourite history post to nominate as well.
The nomination form is at http://historycarnival.org/form.html.
Thanks,
Helen Webberley
perkinsy says
The History Carnival is a great way of sharing quality blog posts about a vast array of history. Good on you for editing the next one! I’ll definitely nominate some posts and I hope others do too.