I am celebrating my 200th post on Stumbling Through the Past and five years of blogging. As I said in my last post, the readers of this blog have contributed to these milestones through your comments and encouragement over the years. I I deeply appreciate of all the support you have shown over the years. To say thank you to you I am giving you the chance to win one of my … [Read more...] about Book Give Away to Celebrate 200 Posts!
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Twitter Themes During 2015 Australian Historical Association Conference
During the four days of open sessions at the conference, participants tweeted over forty thousand words excluding hashtags and Twitter handles. This year’s conference had the biggest Twitter stream of any Australian Historical Association conference since 2012 and as my last post showed, more people tweeted the conference than ever before. A conference Twitter stream is a news … [Read more...] about Twitter Themes During 2015 Australian Historical Association Conference
Historians Stand with Adam Goodes
Adam Goodes is a prominent Aboriginal footballer and Australian of the Year in 2014 yet he has been incessantly booed by football crowds every time he touches the ball for most of this season. No-one else in the modern history of the game has received such a toxic response from the crowd. Adam Goodes has won the best and fairest medal not once, but twice, yet not even the most … [Read more...] about Historians Stand with Adam Goodes
Aboriginal Digital Knowledge Takes Centre Stage at International Conference
Ground breaking use of technology by Australian Aboriginal people was featured at the recent Global Digital Humanities Conference held at the University of Western Sydney. In a session that captivated the attention of academics from around the world the Indigenous Digital Knowledge plenary panel demonstrated that Aboriginal people are innovative in their embrace of … [Read more...] about Aboriginal Digital Knowledge Takes Centre Stage at International Conference
Historical Research on Show in Sydney All This Week
This week we can get a peek at the themes and topics will be in the histories we will be reading over the next few years.It is the week for the annual festival of history, more soberly known as the conference of the Australian Historical Association. I have done a preliminary scan of the conference programs and the abstracts of papers to be presented at parallel sessions and … [Read more...] about Historical Research on Show in Sydney All This Week