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Forum on Imperial Histories of Crime

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Archives, prisons and person-centred historical praxis: doing social history research on incarceration in colonial Africa
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart & Tolulope Akande
Published online: 13 May 2024
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‘The poor man’s overdraft’: a longer history of Australian retail credit
Jackie Dickenson
Published online: 10 May 2024
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Charmaine Robson examines the island leprosariums where thousands of Aboriginal people were incarcerated
Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936–1986, by Charmaine Robson. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 265 pp., $AU337.99 (hbk), ISBN 9783031057953, Publisher’s website:
Joanna Cruickshank
Published online: 10 May 2024
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Jared Davidson on New Zealand’s hidden convict history
Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand, by Jared Davidson, Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 2023, 304 pp., $AU45.77 (pbk), ISBN 9781991033406, Publisher’s website
David Andrew Roberts
Published online: 10 May 2024
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Dean Ashenden on the making and breaking of Australian silences
Telling Tennant’s Story: The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence, by Dean Ashenden, Collingwood, Black Inc., 2022, 338 pp., $AU36.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781760641757, Publisher’s website:
Laura Rademaker
Published online: 10 May 2024
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Editorial

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From the Editors
Kate Fullagar, Jessica Lake, Benjamin Mountford & Ellen Warne
Published online: 10 May 2024
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Forum on Imperial Histories of Crime

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Historical criminology and colonialism
Andy Kaladelfos & Vicky Nagy
Published online: 09 May 2024
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History off the Page Reviews

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Digital history at street level: mapping the past in Darlinghurst
Darlinghurst: A Digital History Project Mapping the People and Places of Liverpool Street, by Nicole Cama, historian/writer, Nick Carter, web developer, Wing Pang, designer/illustrator, Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology Sydney, 2023.
James Findlay
Published online: 09 May 2024
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Tidal Kin: Stories from the Pacific – An exhibition of pacific explorers
Tidal Kin: Stories from the Pacific, Jude Philp, Ruth Choulai, Steven Gagau and Leo Tanoi, curators, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, 7 October 2023 to 29 September 2024.
Innez Haua, Ngāti Porou & Ngāi Tāmanuhiri )
Published online: 07 May 2024
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Forum on Imperial Histories of Crime

Introduction
Imperial genealogies of crime: introduction to a forum
Meg Foster
Published online: 07 May 2024
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Tamson Pietsch takes us on an educational voyage with the Floating University
The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge, by Tamson Pietsch, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2023, pp. 323. ISBN 13: 978-0-226-82516-8 (cloth)
Ian Tyrrell
Published online: 03 May 2024
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Nemesis and Australian political culture
Frank Bongiorno
Published online: 03 May 2024
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Forum on Imperial Histories of Crime

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‘Not regular thieves’: shades of Bhil engagement with company criminal justice (c. 1818–1825)
Nishant Gokhale & Meg Foster
Published online: 03 May 2024
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Kate Fullagar goes back in time
Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled, by Kate Fullagar, Cammeray, NSW, Scribner, 2023, xvii + 298 pp., $AU55.00, ISBN 9781761108174 (hardback), 9781761108181 (ebook), Publisher’s website:
Victoria Haskins
Published online: 02 May 2024
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Jatinder Mann on the value of comparative study of Commonwealth citizenships
Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, by Jatinder Mann, New York, Peter Lang, 2019, 188 pp., $USD108.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781433151088, Publishers website:
Kim Rubenstein
Published online: 02 May 2024
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Commentary
Lisa Ford
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Commentary

Commentary
Alan Lester
Published online: 23 Apr 2024
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Research Articles

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Don’t be shame, be game! Responding to HIV and AIDS in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Geraldine Fela
Published online: 19 Apr 2024
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Caitlin Mahar sheds important light on the contested history of euthanasia
The Good Death through Time, by Caitlin Mahar, Melbourne University Press, 2023, 215 pp., $AU35.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780522878127, Publisher’s Website:
Ian Dowbiggin
Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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A survey of place on the early colonial frontier: James Grant and William Paterson on the Hunter River, 1801
Greg Burgess
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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‘Are you happy now?’: women gauge readers and postwar Victoria
Harrison Croft
Published online: 19 Mar 2024
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‘An atrocious crime’: perjury on trial in colonial Australia
Mark Finnane
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Life in History

My life in history
Shurlee Swain
Published online: 22 Jan 2024
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