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A Professional Turn

15/01/2023 by Perkinsy

2 blank monitors on white desk, in between which can be seen a cat sleeping behind them. Sunlight is filtered through a partially open blind casting strips on the sleeping cat and part of the desk. In the foreground is a Linux book and a white keyboard.

The new year is a good time to share some big changes in my life during 2022. I left you in August last year with the promise of more blog posts, then silence. I didn’t manage to publish one post in months. There was a reason for this. Over the last year I had been feeling that I was ready for a change and a new challenge, so I started applying for jobs. In September I … [Read more...] about A Professional Turn

Review: The Art of Time Travel by Tom Griffiths

09/08/2017 by Yvonne Perkins 5 Comments

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The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their craft is a very readable exploration of the writing of history in Australia since World War II. Written by highly respected historian, Tom Griffiths, The Art of Time Travel examines the work of fourteen influential historical writers who have developed the way we understand history in Australia. Each chapter focuses on a different … [Read more...] about Review: The Art of Time Travel by Tom Griffiths

Review: Waging Peace by Anne Deveson

07/06/2017 by Yvonne Perkins 6 Comments

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Anne Deveson was a highly regarded journalist, film-maker and human rights activist who died late last year. Her last book was a memoir titled Waging Peace and was published in 2013. Anne Deveson was a groundbreaker in many ways. She helped Australian society grapple with serious issues that people experienced silently such as mental illness, poverty and abuse. As I expected … [Read more...] about Review: Waging Peace by Anne Deveson

Review: The Anzacs by Patsy Adam-Smith

25/04/2017 by Yvonne Perkins 9 Comments

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The fog rolled down the river and engulf our house. The cold and damp penetrated the walls and windows. Our only view, an opaque whiteness. Through the stillness, the sound of a lone bugler playing the Last Post reached us from the nearby cemetery. Another old soldier had died. This was the house our family was living in when Patsy Adam-Smith published The Anzacs, her iconic … [Read more...] about Review: The Anzacs by Patsy Adam-Smith

Maybanke Anderson: suffragist and social reformer

06/04/2017 by Yvonne Perkins 3 Comments

Change in a culture often occurs in fits and starts, in confusing whirls of ideas and protest followed by quiet periods where old orthodoxies percolate through society again but in a different guise. Reform digs in its heels. New form orthodoxies flex their muscles and then we find the times of protest, ideas and reform are upon us again. As we cycle through complacency, … [Read more...] about Maybanke Anderson: suffragist and social reformer

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Yvonne Perkins is a professional historian and launched Stumbling Through the Past in August 2010. Focusing on history, and Australian history in particular, posts include interviews, book reviews, news reports on conferences and reflective pieces.

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