The Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century, particularly as it was lived and remembered in Australia, has always keenly interested me. Several of these pieces delve deeper into the terrain of my first book, The Convict’s Daughter, while taking highways (literally in the case of my work on the Hume Highway) and byways besides:

Archival discoveries allowed me to write about ‘Sydney’s 9189 “sister politicians” who petitioned Queen Victoria’, The Conversation, 18 October 2019.

Kiera Lindsey, ‘Remembering Aesi’: Women’s history, dialogical memorials and Sydney’s 19^th c. statuary’, Kiera Lindsey and Mariko Smith, ‘The Statue Wars’, Public History Review, Public History Review, Vol 28, June 2021.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘The Absolute Distress of Females’: Irish abduction and the shaping of Irish and Imperial Identity, 1800 to 1850’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, August 2014. 
Kiera Lindsey, ‘So Much Recklessness: Abduction in the Colony of New South Wales’, Australian Historical Studies, September 2013, 44:3, 438 – 456.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘A Mistress of her Own Consent: the Abduction of Mary Ann Gill, Sydney 1848’, Written into History, Melbourne Historical Journal: Special Anniversary Issue, University of Melbourne, April 2012.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘A Runaway Romance: Sydney 1848’,Salvador Ryan (ed.), Marriage and the Irish: A Miscellany (Dublin: Wordwell Books, 2019).
Kiera Lindsey, ‘Sydney 1844: Lanty O’Liffey & the Currency Lass’, Visual Material and Print Culture in nineteenth century Ireland. Editors, Ciara Breathnach and Catherine Lawless, (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘Encounter and Enterprise: A Colonial Soundtrack of the Hume Highway’, Hearing Places, Editors, Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy, Dolly McKinnon (London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).
Kiera Lindsey, ‘A Mistress of her Own Consent: the Abduction of Mary Ann Gill, Sydney 1848’, Melbourne Historical Journal, University of Melbourne, December 2009, 47 – 70. — Winner Inaugural Greg Dening History Prize 2009.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘Freeway: The Hume Highway as a Spatial Narrative of Nation’, Traffic, University of Melbourne, November 2004.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘Freeway: The Hume Highway as National Narrative’, Crossings, Issue 9.1, April 2004, Co-editor of Crossings Issue 9.1

I have also frequently presented my work before academic audiences:

In 2009 I told the shocking tale of Mary Pike’s abduction in ‘The Bride Thieves’, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 Dec 2009.

Kiera Lindsey, ‘Scandal and Self-Government in 1848’, Australian Women’s History Symposium, Melbourne, March 2016.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘When the Law Sleeps Justice Must Awaken: 19^th century abduction cases and the colonial newspapers’, AHA Conference, University of Sydney, July 2015.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘The Jealous State and its True Citizens: Marriage and Citizenship in Australia’, International Australian Studies Association Conference, December 2014.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘Marriage Now and Then’: Forced Marriage, a 19^tth and 21^st century comparison’, AHA Conference, University of Queensland, July 2014.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘The Absolute Distress of Females’: Irish Abduction in the British Press, University of Adelaide, 11 April 2014.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘What the State did next: Forced Marriage in contemporary England and Australia’, European Australian Studies Association, Universitas d’Bordeaux, 4 – 7 Sept 2013.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘Consent as a contested site: Forced Marriage in contemporary Australia’, Australian Historical Association Conference, University of Wollongong, 8 – 12 July 2013.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘Breaching the borders of Desire: Bride theft in colonial Australia’, International Australian Studies Association Conference, Monash University, 7 December 2012.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘Possession and Dispossession: Bride theft in Ireland and Aboriginal Australia in the first half of the nineteenth century’, Australian Historical Association Conference, University of Adelaide, 9 – 13 July 2012.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘Back and forwards across the invisible line: Kate Grenville’s tug-of-war between history and fiction in contemporary Australia’, University College Dublin, 9 October 2009.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘A Step up for the Stage Irishman: Edward Geoghegan’s Currency Lass, Sydney 1843’, Nineteenth century Irish History Conference, University of Limerick, 27 – 29 June 2009.
Kiera Lindsey, ‘A Quick Boring Route: The Hume Highway as Spatial Narrative’, Cruising Country: A symposium & film event exploring ‘automobilities’ in non-urban Australia, Australian National University, 26 — 28 May 2005.