Harry Croft

he/him | on unceded Boonwurrung land | PhD student at Monash University | Environmental History

[Harry Croft @Captain_Boot]

Minoru Hokari, Gurindji Journey. Brilliant and paradigm shifting. Intimate and revelatory. What happens to the Western tradition of the historical discipline when it takes seriously the Dreaming, Everywhen, and Indigenous epistemologies? Truly wonderful things.

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For the third year in a row, I read one book per week. Hopelessly, only one was fiction (Joseph Heller, Picture This); the rest history, animal studies, memoir, archaeology, pedagogy, and the like. Some highlights include:

[Harry Croft @Captain_Boot]

Fernand Braudel, Identity of France vol. I. The attention to detail is breathtaking. Linking regions’ roofing materials with local economies and geographies (pp. 53 & 171) to paint a longue durée history, to give one example. Siân Reynolds’ translation is fantastic.

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@claire_wwood @latrobe Congrats Claire! 🎉

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It’s giving Franklin Dam

[Anthony Albanese @AlboMP]

I support salmon farming on Macquarie Harbour because it means jobs for Tasmania.

[Rebi Houlihan @RebiHoulihan]

The SoPHIS postgrad cohort was very much cohort-ing at our end of year event

[Harry Croft @Captain_Boot]

@ruthamorgan My desk is soon to collapse under the strain of all the books I’ve been frantically borrowing over the last few weeks

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Monash’s main library is binning half its collection over the summer. Just look at the shelves! 😢

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@zaraasaunders A ruddy good question! Ostensibly it’s too improve accessibility (something I can support—the shelves are VERY close together), but rather than moving them to offsite storage or donating them, the books are going in the bin!

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@sighmonger I saw it last weekend! Loved loved loved the premise

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Standing room only for the launch of Judith Buckrich’s latest!

[AHA (Australia) @AustHistAssoc]

The website for the 2025 AHA Conference is live! Hosted by James Cook University and Central Queensland University, the CFP is now open on any area of history, including those on the conference theme, 'Looking Up'.
https://t.co/zmQGqYf8Av

[Harry Croft @Captain_Boot]

Feeling very full following a week in Canberra "thinking planetarily", writing, scouring archives, and catching up with friends and family :)

[Joshua Black @Joshua_Black97]

Retweeting this CfP for a special issue of @AJPandH on the 49th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government/appointment of Malcolm Fraser as PM. Proposals due 13 November! Feel free to DM if you want any further details 😊

[AHA (Australia) @AustHistAssoc]

The AHA welcomes the Australian Government's proposed 20% cut to HECS-HELP student debts. But this modest cost-of-living relief cannot, on its own, make Higher Ed debts more equitable. 'Job-ready Graduates' must give way to a better, fairer fee system
https://t.co/UmD7NVs16p

[Harry Croft @Captain_Boot]

@claire_wwood This is so cool!