Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean" (Robinson, 2023)
Episode 1366
Jeremy Black's A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean (Robinson, 2023) succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)
Episode 88
Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. …
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Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 311
Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp …
3 years, 1 month ago
A Better Way to Buy Books
Episode 109
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alrea…
3 years, 1 month ago
Clive Moore, "Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s" (Australia National UP, 2017)
Episode 87
Malaita is one of the major islands in the Solomons Archipelago and has the largest population in the Solomon Islands nation. Its people have an unde…
3 years, 2 months ago
Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 86
The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external ‘reading’ of the head. In the transforming …
3 years, 2 months ago
Tanya Evans, "Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 1347
Family history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations like Australia and…
3 years, 2 months ago
Chris Fleming, "On Drugs" (Giramondo Publishing, 2019)
Episode 44
"After I’d finished my rapid-fire history of self-justification he paused and then said, deadpan and rural-Australian-slow: 'Right. Ok. So how is tha…
3 years, 2 months ago
Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
Episode 85
Why do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre of constructing neoliberalism? How might corporatism have advanced neoliberalism?…
3 years, 3 months ago
Michael Roper, "Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 187
Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Michael Roper documents the lives and historical pursuits of the…
3 years, 3 months ago