Description
Published amid rising student fees, shrinking university departments and increasing political scrutiny of research, this fifth issue of ANU Historical Journal II brings together eight peer-reviewed articles examining how histories of place, memory and violence are made and contested. Articles explore community collaboration in the Mount Ainslie Labyrinth, grassroots memorialisation of the Spanish Civil War in Canberra, Australian tourism to 1930s Stalinist Russia and the national legacy of Victor Hugo. Other contributions examine slave resistance in colonial Haiti, the political power of documentary film in shaping narratives of Guantanamo Bay, the Vietnam-era historiography of Australia’s role in the Boer War and scholarly memory of the Watergate scandal. Five book reviews round out the issue, engaging with recent publications in Australian, political and global history.
Details
- ISSN (print):
- 2652-015X
- ISSN (online):
- 2652-0281
- Publication date:
- Jan 2026
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/ANUHJII.05.2025
- Journal:
- ANU Historical Journal II
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities
- Countries:
- Australia
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- Preliminary pages (PDF, 58 KB)
- Editorial (PDF, 74 KB) – Matilda Hatcher and Aaron Marston-Pattison
- Acknowledgements (PDF, 66 KB) – Madeline Pentland and Zoe Smith
Articles
- ‘It will probably be the only recognition I will get’: A study of the unofficial Spanish Civil War memorial in Canberra (PDF, 3.7 MB) – Hin Yeung (Alex) Chu doi
- Suicides, souls and slavery: Elementary aspects of slave resistance in Saint-Domingue (PDF, 178 KB) – Callum Blaikie doi
- ‘History will treat me fairly, historians probably won’t’: Notes on the historiography of Watergate and suchlike political disasters (PDF, 159 KB) – Stephen Wilks doi
- Australian involvement in the Boer War: A case study in the perpetuation of the ‘nationalist’ myth of a separate Australian identity (PDF, 224 KB) – Guy Murfey doi
- ‘See USSR’: The Soviet Union’s experimental tourism industry of the 1930s (PDF, 3.2 MB) – Levy Perrett doi
- ‘A magical, serendipitous thing’: The co-constitution of a community labyrinth (PDF, 3.8 MB) – Julie Rickwood doi
- Victor Hugo: An enduring Lieu de mémoire (PDF, 140 KB) – Daniela Lisacek doi
- Contested histories: The contribution of documentary film to an alternative narrative of Guantanamo Bay after 9/11 (PDF, 193 KB) – Marilyn Dempster doi
Primary source
- Living inside a revolution: A feminist point of view (PDF, 161 KB) – Elizabeth Reid doi
Book reviews
- A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods, 2nd ed., by Margaret Cook (PDF, 95 KB) – Harrison Croft
- Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman, by Barbara Minchinton with Philip Bentley (PDF, 96 KB) – Michelle Staff
- The Limits of Consent: Sexual Assault and Affirmative Consent, by Lisa Featherstone, Cassandra Byrnes, Jenny Maturi, Kiara Minto, Renee Mickelburgh and Paige Donaghy (PDF, 93 KB) – Zoe Smith
- Serendipity: Experience of Pacific Historians, edited by Brij V. Lal (PDF, 97 KB) – Nicholas Hoare
- The Shrinking Nation: How We Got Here and What Can Be Done about It, by Graeme Turner (PDF, 98 KB) – Joshua Black
- Contributors (PDF, 87 KB)
- Copyright and journal information (PDF, 165 KB)
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