New book 🔊 Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia. Please review! Also happy to do author talks 🤓 routledge.com/Fascists-in-Ex…

2024 Australian and New Zealand Rare Book School (ANZRBS) applications are now open and bursaries are available for BSANZ Members!! anzrbs.org BSANZ Members can apply for a bursary to cover the course fee (up to $1000 AUD).anzrbs.org/bursaries-awar… ALIA Rare Books and Special Collections

"Enshittification" is the 2023 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. americandialect.org/2023-word-of-t…

Carl Weathers: a life in pictures theguardian.com/film/gallery/2…

Start thinking about your papers for the BSANZ Annual Conference 2024: "Bibliomania: Stories from Inside and Outside the Book. Venue: National Library of Australia, Canberra Dates: 4-5 December 2024. Read the CFP here: bsanz.org The Bibliographical Society The Bibliographical Society of America NSLA #bsanz2024

ICYMI this week's reviews: Braham Dabscheck on Andrew Fowler's Nuked: The submarine fiasco that sank Australia’s sovereignty buff.ly/3XNfI6k Melbourne University Publishing #AUKUS Linda Funnell on Bruce Moore's The 1972 Parramatta Jail Glossary buff.ly/4bubeEz ANDC

Come along to Harry Hartog at ANU at 6pm (new time) on Monday 5th August to hear Leigh Boucher and I in conversation with Frank Bongiorno about our new book, Personal Politics! The event is free (register via the link): anu.edu.au/events/meet-th…

Are you a sporting fanatic? 🏉🏏🥊 The ANDC need your contributions for sport-related words and phrases. reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/di…

Congratulations to Jordy Silverstein who has received an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for the project: Intergenerational Stories of Statelessness: An Oral History Project 🥳 rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Dow…

Congratulations to brilliant PhD student Madeleine Clews (Madeleine Clews) on being awarded the 2024 Susan Kaldor scholarship by Australian Linguistic Society! Madeleine’s thesis is a sociolinguistic study of 19th century Australian English, with a focus on the Colony of WA. 🤩 UWA

🎉 Shortlist for the #NSWPHA Anzac Memorial Trustees’ Military History Prize ($10,000). Congratulations Kristen Alexander, Lucas Jordan and Chris Masters Read judges’ comments: sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/anzac-m…

Just heard of Donald Denoon's passing. His work has been largely forgotten over the past 20 years, but is invaluable. Arguably, he invented settler colonial studies in the 1980s. Vale. asiapacific.anu.edu.au/content-centre…

And it's out in the world! Thank you to HistAustJournal and all the colleagues who helped me develop this from some humble MPhil research (that didn't make the final thesis) into an open access article I'm so proud of! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

ANDC Director Amanda Laugesen explores some of the weird language emerging in the US election campaign in the ANU Reporter: tinyurl.com/yc8d3b58

Great to see my article on the letters of Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland out in the State Library of NSW’s Openbook magazine. Thanks to Phillipa McGuinness for the invitation and to Dr Rachel Franks (she, her) for all the fellowship things.

There is a certain immortality involved in theater, not created by monuments and books, but through the knowledge an actor keeps to his dying day that on a certain afternoon, in an empty and empty dusty theater, he cast the shadow of a being that was not himself but the

One of the world's most recognizable voices has gone silent. James Earl Jones, known for his acting and voice roles in "Star Wars," "Field of Dreams" and "The Lion King," has died at the age of 93.

📚✨ The Bibliomania: Stories from Inside and Outside the Book microsite is live! Join us at the National Library of Australia Canberra, Dec 4–5, 2024. Hybrid format with in-person and virtual options. Visit our microsite for updates! #Bibliomania2024 #BSANZ #NLA bibliomaniabsanz.com