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History Lab || exploring the gaps between us and the past || This series is made in collaboration by the Australian Centre for Public History and Impact Studios at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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33. [Caribbean Echoes]Nellie Small: Queer Black Caribbean-Australian Icon
Who was the Caribbean-Australian cabaret star who could bring down the house — and come back at racism with a joke?
"Come sit by me, we don’t e...
32. From slavery to anticolonialism: John Maynard and Tony Birch on Black and Indigenous boxing
What does boxing have to do with anticolonial politics?
How did the sport become a space where Black and Indigenous fighters in Australia pushe...
31. Peter Jackson: Boxing champion and pioneer of Black self-representation
Did you know that the most famous Australian in the world in 1890 was from the Caribbean?
Peter Jackson was born in St Croix in the Caribbean in...
30. History Lab is changing
History Lab is back—refreshed and reimagined.
From now on, you’ll hear us in regular seasonal runs, dropping new episodes once or twice a fortn...
28. Truth-telling: From Country to Classroom
What is the work of truth-telling? How is evidence collected? What happens next?
What role should schools play in teaching Australia’s full hist...
Fishing for Answers
This special episode from our archives speaks to this year’s NAIDOC Week themes of strength, vision and legacy.
Fishing for Answers explores the...
27. Faces Today: Indigenous Artists Return the Gaze
Colonial portraits have long dictated how Indigenous people were seen. But Indigenous artists continue to challenge that power. Through satire, reinte...
26. Facing Off: From Botany Bay to Aotearoa
In this episode, historians Kate Fullagar and Mike McDonnell revisit Bennelong’s portraits to examine how colonial art encountered Indigenous identity...
25. Facing Empire: A Long History of Representing Others
Bennelong, a Wangal man of the Eora nation, was among the first Aboriginal people to travel to Europe and return. As a crucial interlocutor between hi...
Introducing: Unsettling Portraits
Can colonial depictions of Indigenous people tell us anything useful about the past?
How do Indigenous people today feel about these enduring...
What's coming in 2025? History Lab update and previews with Tamson Pietsch
If you're an old friend, hello and thank you for hitting play. If you're a new listener, welcome.
History Lab, as many of you will know, was Aus...
24. On the Edge: a layered history of Sydney's South Head
A special History Lab episode with a soundwork that explores the history of Sydney's South Head, followed by an interview with the maker Sinead Roarty...
Introducing... Hey History!
We've got a new history podcast for you and the kids in your life, called Hey History!
With immersive, sound rich storytelling and Australia's...
23. Last Drinks
In 1887 there were no less than 22 hotels in Darlinghurst. Over the next century and a half, the character, culture and clientele of Darlinghurst pubs...
22. Room With A View
Terraces, flats, squats, bedsits, mansions, towers, camps and hostels: in Darlinghurst, housing is a mixed bag. This audio story explores the range of...
21. Pandemic Times
At St Vincent's Hospital, the Sisters of Charity have been delivering care to the people of Darlinghurst since 1857. This audio story visits St Vincen...
20. Red Light Green Light
In the rapidly gentrifying Darlinghurst of the 1980s, a turf war raged over one of its earliest trades. In this story, we visit the street corners and...
19. Eccentrics
Darlinghurst has always been a magnet and a haven for exiles and misfits. With writer and Darlo-phile Sunil Badami as guide, this audio story celebrat...
18. Lost Waterways
If you listen after rain, you can still hear the rush of water that used to flow from the sandstone ridge at the apex of Darlinghurst down to the harb...
Introducing: Listen to Darlinghurst
Welcome to a special History Lab series, Listen to Darlinghurst. In this mini episode, History Lab host Anna Clark and Listen to Darlinghurst producer...
17. What remains of Joe Governor?
After Jimmy’s trial, what happened to his brother Joe?
Joe has mostly been forgotten by history, and his presence in the archives is little more...
16. Death Row Diary
How does the law deal with an outlaw?
Jimmy Governor is captured and his legal case becomes a lightning rod for justice in the new federation. B...
15. The Last Outlaws
This is the tale of a prison colony trying to become a country and the murder case that stood in its way, but this is not a true crime podcast.
...
Introducing History Lab Season Four - The Last Outlaws
The Last Outlaws is the latest audio series to be released by Impact Studios, an audio production house embedded in the University of Technology Sydne...
Introducing 'The New Social Contract' - a new podcast by the makers of History Lab
How will Australian universities fare in a post-pandemic world? It depends on an influential but rarely talked about relationship between the state, i...
14. A close match
Three days before Spain’s general elections in 2004 a series of bombs exploded on crowded Madrid commuter trains, killing almost 200 people.
The...
13. Reading the signs
When was the last time you were asked to sign something and did you stop to think how the strange squiggly mark you make on a page could be used?
12. Making a fortune
'Making a Fortune' looks at the popularity and persecution of two of the most formidable fortune tellers of Federation Australia.
In the first d...
11. Bonus Cast - The Law's Way of Knowing?
History Lab host Dr Tamson Pietsch hands over the mic to Dr Alecia Simmonds, an interdisciplinary scholar of law and history at the University of Tech...
10. In case I die in this mess
Death, money and family are the key ingredients in any last will and testament. They also make a killer cocktail that unleashes a special force not pr...
Introducing Season Three of History Lab - The Law's Way of Knowing
History Lab is back for a third season, fresh from wins at the New York Radio Festival Awards and the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia....
9. Making history in audio
History Lab audio makers explore how we've tried to understand the past through sound in season two
8. Skeletons of Empire
In the aftermath of World War One, nations came together in an attempt to ensure war on the same devastating scale could never occur again. The result...
7. Invisible hands
Where do jelly babies come from?
Mass-produced things are all around us. But they all start with a single object. In this episode, Olivia goes l...
6. The Bank, the Sergeant and his bonus
In 1817, the Bank of New South Wales opened as the first financial institution in the Australian colonies. But when the first customers arrived for th...
5. Fishing for answers
Sydney's iconic Opera House plays host to musicians and dancers, actors and singers. But beneath the notes of their voices, another song echoes across...
4. Bonus episode | The making of History Lab |
What does it take to make History Lab?
This bonus interlude episode lifts the curtain on all that goes into making history for your ears!
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3. When the Titanic sank in the desert
In the middle of a mining town in outback Australia, over 400 kilometres from the closest ocean, stands a monument dedicated to the memory of the Tita...
2. Damages for a broken heart
Quietly buried away in Western Sydney’s state archives is a secret history of love.
Lists of lingerie, love letters and lockets of hair, are sta...
1. Lindy Chamberlain and the afterlife of evidence
What happens to evidence after a criminal trial?
Tamson goes looking for answers and finds them in the shadow of one of the worst miscarriages o...