Marian Quartly is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University.
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Talking about a revolution
Marian Quartly
24 October 2025
Hope can be found in the history of Australian feminism. But what best to do next?
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Authors of their own lives?
Marian Quartly
23 September 2025
How children and fathers experienced twentieth-century Australia
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Bark diplomacy
Marian Quartly
22 November 2024
Could the Yirrkala Petitions best be understood as an attempt at communication between nations?
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Where Cook saw a camel
Marian Quartly
16 September 2024
Two journeys up the east coast of Australia
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Marvellous Melbourne’s Madame Brussels
Marian Quartly
21 August 2024
Historical detective work reveals more of the life of the city’s best-known brothel-keeper
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Blighted affections
Marian Quartly
8 November 2023
What was lost when breach-of-promise cases could no longer be taken to court?
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Slicing the tide
Marian Quartly
16 May 2023
English writer Alethea Hayter pioneered a new way of framing history
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Writing history in dark places
Marian Quartly
23 March 2023
A historian tries to hear the voices of lost children
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Alternative histories
Marian Quartly
11 November 2021
Janet McCalman’s new book throws fresh light on Australia’s convict history
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