Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchZachary Gorman, "The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
Episode 227
Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in Australian history. The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 (Melbourne UP, 2022) explor…
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Matthew Allen, "Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Episode 226
The nineteenth-century spread of democracy in Britain and its colonies coincided with an increase in alcohol consumption and in celebratory public di…
1 year, 4 months ago
Is Beach Safety Signage Fit For Purpose?
Episode 225
We often take the meaning of signs for granted but that's far from the case in a linguistically and culturally diverse society. The instruction to "S…
1 year, 4 months ago
Stuart Ward, "Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 171
How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Professor Stuart Wa…
1 year, 5 months ago
Georgina Banks, "Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth about a Wartime Massacre" (Viking Australia, 2023)
Episode 223
Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ‘Bud’, killed in the Second World War.
Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied…
1 year, 6 months ago
Tuomas Tammisto, "Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier" (Helsinki UP, 2024)
Episode 222
On the podcast today I am joined by socio-cultural anthropologist, Tuomas Tammisto, who is an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tampe…
1 year, 6 months ago
Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 166
Between 1840 and 1860 the British Empire expanded rapidly in scale, with rampant annexation of territory and ruthless suppression of rebellion. These…
1 year, 7 months ago
Teaching International Students in Australia
Episode 220
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Agi Bodis and Dr Jing Fang about international tertiary students in A…
1 year, 7 months ago
Tom Lynch, "Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Episode 219
People make sense of the world through stories, and stories about places inevitably shape how we treat, live on, and use those places. In Outback and…
1 year, 7 months ago
David Oakeshott, "Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwestern Pacific: Becoming Enemy Friends" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 94
Bringing concepts from critical transitional justice and peacebuilding into dialogue with education, Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwester…
1 year, 7 months ago