History Lab Podcast
1) 39. From page to screen: the Idea of Australia
In this episode of History Lab Live, we bring you a conversation about the joys and challenges of translating Australian history to television.Writer and academic Julianne Schultz joins director Benja...Show More
2) 38. HL Live: Memory, Institutions and Freedom
In this episode of History Lab Live, we present the 2025 David Scott Mitchell Oration, delivered by Kim Williams at the State Library of New South Wales. A passionate advocate for the arts, medi...Show More
3) 37. [Caribbean Echoes 6] Caribbean Convicts
Caribbean Convicts weaves together the story of the Caribbean men who arrived in Sydney onboard the convict ship the Moffatt on August 30, 1836. Most had been enslaved, including William Buchanan...Show More
4) 36. [Caribbean Echoes 5]: Live from the Abercrombie with Zahra Newman and Alana Valentine
In this special episode of Caribbean Echoes, series producers Ben Etherington and Sienna Brown are in conversation with star Jamaican-Australian actress Zahra Newman and acclaimed playw...Show More
5) 35. History Lab Live: The Last Outlaws
Hear author and historian Katherine Biber tell the story of Jimmy and Joe Governor, Wiradjuri and Wonnarua brothers, who in 1900 went on a murder spree that killed nine people and terrified countless ...Show More
6) 34. [Caribbean Echoes] Susannah Andrews: Jamaican Matriarch to Footy Legends and Mining Startups
What connects a VFL “Champion of the Colony” to a woman born enslaved in Jamaica?In 1919, Richmond footballer Vic Thorp won the league’s highest honour for the second time — the equivalent of today’s ...Show More
7) 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 eat people anymore."Nellie Small was born in Sydney i...Show More
33. [Caribbean Echoes] Nellie Small: Queer Black Caribbean-Australian Icon
48:48 | Oct 10th, 2025
8) 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 pushed back against racism and empire?From Peter Jackson to Ja...Show More
9) 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 the years after slavery was abolished. He arrived in Syd...Show More
10) 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 fortnight over six to eight weeks. Each run will showcase a mi...Show More