New chapters published – Making Public Histories

9 Oct 2025

The La Trobe eBureau is excited to announce that new chapters have been added to Making Public Histories: Australian History Beyond the University, edited by Nikita Vanderbyl, Katherine Ellinghaus, Yves Rees and Clare O’Hanlon. This updated edition includes new student projects along with new chapters from academics at La Trobe University.

The updated edition consists of the following contributions from academic authors:

• Angels of History: Public Histories as Advocacy and Activism by Liz Conor
• Place-based History: Teaching and Researching in Ecologically and Culturally Sustainable Ways by Jennifer Jones
• “What are you digging up the past for?”: Family History and the Realities of Searching through the Colonial Archive by Judith Wickes and Katherine Ellinghaus
• Retelling Tongan Mobility Histories in Australia: Exploring Private Archives, E-Cultivated Cultural Heritage and Migration Narratives by Ruth (Lute) Faleolo
• Schwerkolt Cottage: Local History, Public History, Conservation Heritage and the Past by David Harris
• Applying Historical Research to Heritage Conservation: A Case Study of the Miner’s Cottage by Charles Fahey

As well as these new contributions from student authors:

• From Italia to Melbourne: A Culinary Journey of Italian Migration by Cristina M. Thompson
• Aussie Bites Podcast by Chelsea Roscio
• Monuments in Moonee Ponds Podcast by Michael Cooney
• Ned Kelly: The Man Behind the Metal by Stephanie Trew
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in the First World War by Matilda Murray-White
• 1965 Freedom Ride by Verity Paddon
• ‘Border Security’: the scapegoating of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia since 2001 by Meg Burns