Established in 1991, PHA (Vic & Tas) provides accreditation, support and professional development opportunities for over 200 historians working in Victoria and Tasmania.
A professional historian is a formally trained individual who can critically assess evidence and events of the past and place them into a broader political, economic and social context.
Some of over 200 members of Pha (vic & tas) at the 2025 pha conference, larrakia country (darwin).
UPCOMING MEMBER EVENTS
HCV's first Book & Author chat is with Jessica Lake, the author of Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law.
Thursday, 5 March, 6 pm at Bard's Apothecary, 24 Crossley Street, Melbourne.
Special Damage offers a comparative legal history of gendered hate speech, verbal abuse, and sexual harassment across 19th-century America, Australia, and England. Lake tracks the creation of the Slander of Women reforms that made it easier for women to sue when called "whores." Lake reveals, for the first time, the cases brought by women that spurred and benefitted from these reforms. In doing so, she details how debates about women, speech, and reputation circulated through transnational common law networks, connecting countries, colonies, and continents.
