hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Chinese Australasian history. History of the family. Legal histories of migration and citizenship. #chinozhist #histodons
Hello fellow academics and teachers!
Have you used one of my publications, or digital projects like the Real Face of White Australia, in your teaching (since 2020)?
If so, I would love to hear how you've used my work and how students have responded – and see your unit / course outline, too!
Email kate.bagnall@utas.edu.au
Sophie Couchman and I have been awarded the 2024 Annual Prize in Legal History (Best Article or Book Chapter) for our 2023 article, 'Identification Photography and the Surveillance of Chinese Mobility in Colonial Australasia’, awarded by the Australian and New Zealand Legal History Society. Yay us!
Kung hei fat choi! 恭喜發財! Happy new year!
As we enter the Year of the Dragon in 2024, here’s a look back at how the Chinese community in the tin mining settlement of Thomas’ Plains Tasmania, celebrated New Year in 1884 – one hundred and forty years ago!
It’s 130 years since the Aotearoa New Zealand granted women the right to vote in parliamentary elections, after the Electoral Act (NZ) was signed into law on 19 September 1893.
Here’s a blog post I wrote about Minnie Alloo of Dunedin and her family, some of the women who gained the right to vote that day!
Minnie and her sisters were of mixed Chinese-Scottish ancestry, all born in the Australasian colonies.
New #OpenAccess publication!
'Subjects and Aliens' presents new legal and social histories of nationality, race and belonging in Australasia, exploring the experiences of people whose lives challenged white settler ideas about who 'belonged' in Australia and New Zealand.
Chapters include:
–Jane McCabe on intergenerational land ownership and Chinese and Dalmatian farmers in NZ
– Sophie Couchman on Chinese Australians, race and WWI (unpicking the idea of 'not substantially of European origin or descent')
– Margaret Allen on Indian Australians and the fight for for imperial citizenship
– Emma Bellino on Australian women who lost their nationality through marriage to foreign men.
I did a fun work thing this weekend that reminded me of the me I was before long COVID. Nothing I enjoy more than helping good people make sense of the complicated lives of their ancestors – in this case, an early mixed Chinese-Irish-English Tasmanian family. #ChinOzHist #FamilyHistory #genealogy
In my latest blog post, I issue a word of warning to family historians who might be relying on a family tree from Ancestry.com for information about their ancestor’s Chinese origins.
https://chineseaustralia.org/so-you-think-your-ancestor-might-come-from-shunde/
A lovely story about one of our many happy UTAS Family History graduates!
With our 10 year anniversary of the Diploma of Family History coming up in 2026, we’ve had more than 2500 graduates – the majority of whom are older women returning to study after many years, or studying at university for the first time.
https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2025/paving-a-career-path-based-on-the-past
I recently won a holiday in Macau, and now I have the chance to win return trip!
You can help me win by heading over to my Instagram and liking my Macau posts (i.e. all of my posts!).
My handle is @drbaibi www.instagram.com/drbaibi/
Thank you! 多謝!
REGISTRATIONS STILL OPEN!
Librarians! Join my fabulous colleague Dr Imogen Wegman to gain the fundamental skills to help family historians discover their personal stories. Cover the resources specific for family history research, and how to navigate challenging histories.
⏰ Closing soon! http://buff.ly/3sJiU58
Want to improve your #FamilyHistory skills – but don’t want to enrol in a whole degree/diploma?
Study ‘Introduction to Family History’ with us through Open Universities Australia!
Term 3 starts 22 July 2024 https://www.open.edu.au/subjects/university-of-tasmania-introduction-to-family-history-tas-haa003 #genealogy
My work year in review for 2023 – long COVID edition!
https://chineseaustralia.org/2023-in-review/
@caity@bne.social I’ve just made one using Once Upon app/website. It’s super simple (although that means not a lot of options) and the finished book is really lovely. I scanned photos at high res, and put them all in one folder in Photos to make finding them easier to add. You can include text pages and captions to photos. Shipping to Sydney & Hobart each took about a week.
I received one of these emails this evening.
@wragge@hcommons.social
Run by the awesome, and extremely knowledgeable, Sophie Couchman!
@wragge@hcommons.social
The School of Humanities at UTAS is advertising for an Environmental Historian, Level B, C, D! (I don’t know much about this job in particular, but I’d be happy to chat re History at UTAS generally if you’d like to know more.) https://careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/499512/lecturer-senior-lecturer-associate-professor-in-environmental-history #histodons