Nathan Hobby

Biographer, scholar & special collections librarian. Author of THE RED WITCH, 2023 WA Premier's Prize Book of the Year. Writing a life of @JohnCurtin1885.

[Nathan Hobby @NathanHobby]

I'm glad reviews don't come out all at once. The new issue of the Australian Journal of Biography and History has the most generous and engaged review by @ChSpittel of my book The Red Witch https://t.co/iyvoMQ1lCW

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874) gathers real swaths of poisonous arsenic wallpaper sourced from stores across Michigan. Originally printed in a run of 100 copies, only 6 remain due to recipients fearfully destroying their copies: https://t.co/DqgJhLuFzu

[Nathan Hobby @NathanHobby]

As someone with ME/CFS, I really appreciate George Monbiot's informed advocacy in his new Guardian column.

[hop @imhop47432]

Excellent opinion piece by George Monbiot about the shocking neglect of patients with ME/CFS; many still being prescribed Graded Exercise Therapy.

Mentions Sweden 🇸🇪 and Australia 🇦🇺 where official guidance for postcovid and ME still recommends GET ➡️

https://t.co/vbSsF4E3tk

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

In this strangest of diaries, the author and adventurer Edwin Emerson Jr voices a year in his life through the mouth of Samuel Pepys — 1660s London meeting 1898 New York... https://t.co/Z8dBB1la6k

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Various versions of a 19th-century “flap book” titled Metamorphosis enabled children to turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death: https://t.co/PeQrzrOaex

[Nathan Hobby @NathanHobby]

@kristenauthor Congratulations!

[Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor]

So thrilled! History Australia has published ‘Archives & memory: glimpses of abuse & violence in ex-POW homes’. Arising from my PhD research into the Australians of Stalag Luft III it's been a long time gestating. I'm glad it's now out there. Open Access! https://t.co/Q2reLEd4qU

[Samuel Cox @samueljessecox]

My paper on Phoenix, the little known Adelaide modernist literary magazine and precursor to the Angry Penguins has been published! Open access and with many images included, available to read here: https://t.co/O339AZk186

[Inside Story @insidestorymag]

“Even if it is a bit of a stretch to claim the entire modern world was created by the financial crises of the 2nd half of the 19th century, modern Australia certainly was — though not in 1873.”
John Edwards reviews Liaquat Ahamed’s ‘1873’ @penguinpress
https://t.co/QYF8zm25QL

[Australian Communist History @0zCommHistory]

"Socialist Melbourne" - A semi-utopian account of a future Melbourne, written by Ralph Gibson in 1938, outlining:
- A Peoples railway station on Spencer St
- Hammer and sickles on the Commonwealth bank floor (instead of swastikas)
- Soviet congress in Vic Parliament [...]

[Nathan Hobby @NathanHobby]

Great taster for this biography on Late Night Live https://t.co/20t3On4gVK

[Jeff Sparrow @Jeff_Sparrow]

Final form achieved!

[Sydney University Press @SydneyUniPress]

Out now! "Buried" investigates the Australian frontier through the historical and material legacies of the Queensland Native Mounted Police (NMP). 🔗Learn more: https://t.co/xT8RhR5Ctf

#NewRelease #History #AustralianHistory #Archaeology #SocialHistory

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Hit community show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood airs its 912th and final episode after 33 years on the air.

[Doug Hynd @DouginCanberra]

We have lost a great human being, who farmed, wrote poetry, essays, novels who lived within limits & spoke clearly against those would destroy the world - thanks to Wendell Berry who kept finding the right words for our time

[Australian Political Book of the Year Award @auspolbookaward]

We are delighted to reveal the 2026 Longlist!🎊 Read the full list here: https://t.co/qP6PteoUzU

Congratulations: @TroyBramston @AmyRemeikis Deb Whitmont Kate Wild @edcoper Andrew Dodd @MRicketson Paul Strangio Niki Savva @Lachie65 @Virginia_Hauss

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Advertising for cigarettes and tobacco is banned on Australian television as a new law goes into effect.

[Nathan Hobby @NathanHobby]

@Jeff_Sparrow A fine looking book!

[Nathan Hobby @NathanHobby]

@DouginCanberra I know the name, how very sad.

[David Taylor @djtaylorwriter]

Finished copies just arrived. Published 17 September. Terrific design job by @LittleBrownUK US edition early November from @Pegasus_Books

[Joshua Black @Joshua_Black97]

First extract from Performance Politics out in @ConversationEDU today!

[Laura Cumming @LauraCummingArt]

Anita Brookner smoked Sovereign cigs, took Prozac and never missed The Bill - the many revelations in Hermione Lee’s tremendous new biography