Sophie Loy-Wilson

Awesome topic

Reading list on Chinese philosophy used by Chinese Australians in Sydney in 1934

Unidentified group of soldiers during Federation celebrations in Sydney in 1901

Ahhh yes that is entirely possible

Photo 2 in collection. Ted Hood Sydney 1930s

That was my first thought too

Two unidentified Chinese dignitaries being carried in a sedan chair. Sydney 1930s.

I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...

Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place Discovery Course 1

Are you using #maps in research?

Want to learn about their history and use as sources?

In London in late January?

Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!

#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️

A pale yellow book cover, titled Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008. On the right hand side of the cover, a man in a suit is on the first few rungs of a ladder.

Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org

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🧵4/5

Pretty exciting to have @hannahforsyth.bsky.social at usyd today talking about Economics and History. Students were over the moon

Ever since I heard Craig A. Smith talk about Yao-Chang's work in 2023, I've been fascinated by his use of historical archives to recreate violent Qing colonial frontiers in Taiwan. I know the translators have worked hard to bring this work to us in English.
www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=...

History shows war against immigrants will backfire on all Americans Deportations are likely to cause employers to let go of US workers, and reduce the labor force

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Here’s a typical bundle of file papers from the Boston Municipal Court archives. It probably hasn’t been unwrapped since it was docketed in 1822. The organization of the sub-layers is significant, & I always photograph bundles so that I can put them back together as I found them. I love this work! 🗃️

Down in Dyess Johnny Cash wrote in his autobiography, “I grew up under socialism—kind of.”

"Considering the rightward trend of country music through the last half-century, it sounds odd to hear a mainstream country singer endorsing communal economic programs. In Cash’s youth, however, country musicians were behind the New Deal."

(We've always known Johnny Cash was cool.)

Tempted

Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect This article challenges benign depictions of the gradual and intentional liberalisation of the ‘White Australia policy’ during the Menzies government through an analysis of the quick series of amen...

Hot off the press & #OpenAccess, check out 'Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect' by Nathan Gardner Molina: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

You are the best Jon , this book is so necessary

So I submitted the complete manuscript of my new book to the publisher. Hope it'll be out in the world late next year. It's about why Australia's role as an overseas coloniser was strikingly obvious to all and sundry till the 1970s, then was abruptly (and conveniently) forgotten.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

no words

A fantastic photo essay about photographing the vanishing Third Front factories of China.

I spent the day looking at applications for licenses to deal second hand goods, which were required in Boston in 1839, and was struck by how many were on blue paper. Made from coarse rags dyed with indigo, they form a sort of class-based material vernacular. No rich person used paper this color 🗃️

Indigenous Australian flag goes hard

“We have survived”

At the Bicentenary 1988, as a recreation of the 1788 white invasion of Australia came into view on La Perouse headland in Sydney, indigenous Australians watched the tall European ships approach, and quietly, furiously protested from the shore :

History Workshop students learning about Sydney’s indigenous history with Aunty Maxine today , proud Dharawal elder born at the La Perouse mission

Patriots and Propaganda In the turbulent years of China’s War of Resistance against Japan (1931–1945), a unique and complex narrative unfolded far from the battlefields – in Australia. Patriots and Propaganda: Chinese Austra...

Delighted to endorse this exciting new book from Bolin Hu.

Sydney University Press is publishing so much new Chinese Australian history. So happy and proud.

Have a look at our growing 'China and the West in the Modern World' series.

sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/978...

Sorry to hear. Hope all is well where you are. Hard times in this strange world.

You should ask! Will you be there?

Towards a Nanjing narrative of the Second World War in China: Navigating the stigma of an unspeakable past In China, the political act of collaboration with Japan during the Second World War has been cast as a moral flaw, with those who collaborated condemned as hanjian – traitors to the Han Chinese. Th...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....