Scholar Talks

Matt Devine discusses Edward (Ted) Herbert Farmer, Government Architect from 1958-73, during possibly the last Golden Age for public architecture in NSW.

The Tooheys Limited collection has been an untapped resource, in the Mitchell stack, unnoticed by historians. Dr Lisa Murray – 2021 Hertzberg Fellow – has been exploring this special collection of business and industry records.

Art historian David Hansen makes a deep dive into a single (and singular) painting: George Lambert’s The Convex Mirror.

Tess Gardner tells the story of the Australian journalists who played a part in the end of the Qing Dynasty.

This talk explores the important role of Wicked Women and LOTL magazines in connecting and building lesbian communities in Sydney during the 1990s.

Dr Elizabeth Humphrys explores life for blue-collar workers in the economic crises from the 1970s to 1990s.

Associate Professor Clare Monagle — Australian Religious History Fellow, 2020 — explores the history of Christian feminism in Australia in the 1970s and 80s.

This talk and paper employs soldiers’ voices not only to highlight their reliance on vernacular medicine, but also to reformulate the boundaries of medical practice, and ask who can be considered a medical practitioner?