She was a leader in the developing field of Australian women’s history, taking a position first as reader and then professor of women’s studies at Flinders University between 1986 and 1998.

Road systems, weaponised as tools of colonisation around the world, can equally be sites of resistance, writes Nadi Abusaada ...

When Martha Ballard arrived on the Maine frontier in 1777, she was 42 years old. She had grown up in a "settled" town in Massachusetts. The 100 families who initially settled Hallowell, Maine came ...

Flaming Star, opening 12 July and running until 9 November at The Dowse Art Museum, is a provocative and irreverent ...

Frontier women: Triumphs and tribulations of pioneer farming. How the Victorian era created one of the world’s most admired societies. ... In the two decades between 1871 and 1891, the growth in the ...

For instance, as the colonial frontier moved north to Queensland, more violence was recorded. Europeans settled in the state in 1825 , after Brisbane was selected to become a penal settlement ...

The massacre map's research into colonial-era violence has revealed its final grim toll The project, led by the late Dr Lyndall Ryan of Newcastle University, tracked hundreds of massacres across ...

Women. Review: The Wild Adventures ... In 1937, she left Britain to visit a friend in the colonial government of India. ... a hilly and unruly frontier zone where her friend was stationed.

Black women in colonial Boston fought for justice and shaped the city’s history. Their resistance, resilience, and legacy deserve recognition, not as footnotes, but as essential elements of ...