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Rowan Cahill | April 28, 2026

Rowan Cahill offers details and a short overview of his latest book Cold War Kid: Resisting the Vietnam War to be launched 29 May 2026 at Gleebooks in Sydney, register for free in the blog post's link.

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Universities: the good, the bad and the Ramsay Centre

Rowan Cahill | April 2, 2019

In late 2018, about the same time Raewyn Connell and her publishers in London and Melbourne (Zed Books and Monash University Publishing) were putting the finishing touches to her The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s time for Radical Change, a small group of [...]

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The Origins of Worker Mobilisation Reviewed

Rowan Cahill | January 23, 2018

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

In the tradition of E. P. Thompson, redolent of the work of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, Michael Quinlan’s The Origins of Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1788-1850 is magisterial and exhaustive. ‘Magisterial’ because it is game-changing in regard [...]

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Radical History: Thinking, Writing and Engagement (Part 2)

Rowan Cahill | April 22, 2016

We have been discussing radical history, prompted by a new book, Radical Newcastle (NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2015), discovering that its editors, James Bennett, Nancy Cushing, and Erik Eklund, neglected/ignored the tradition of radical history, including the series of recent books on [...]

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Radical History: Thinking, Writing and Engagement (Part 1)

Rowan Cahill | April 15, 2016

Kicking away the props

In recent years, in various places and on our blog ‘Radical Sydney/Radical History’ I have written, in collaboration with Terry Irving, about radical history. As radical historians we seek out, explore, and celebrate the diversities of alternatives and [...]

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Neglected Scholarship

Rowan Cahill | January 29, 2016

Photograph courtesy of Lou Horton

During the Cold War Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997) was one of Australia’s best known communists. During 1954-55 he was a high profile hostile witness subpoenaed by the partisan Royal Commission [...]

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Maritime Outlaws

Rowan Cahill | December 17, 2014

For thirty-odd years, American historian Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh) has been writing about the sea, deep-sea sailing ships, seafaring proletariats, and seafaring rebels, during the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries. Internationally, his landmark study of [...]

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