Sydney Publishing
Q & A with the authors of Buying and Selling the Poor
The SUP store is coming back!
The SUP online store will be reopening on Monday 1 November 2021.听
There may be delays between orders and delivery, but we will keep customers aware of when their items have shipped and are likely to arrive.听
Open Access Week 2021
Monday 25 October marks the start of Open Access Week 2021 and this year the theme is: 鈥淚t matters how we open knowledge:听 building structural equity鈥.
Head over to to peruse the program for this year. There will be a broad range of speakers and panellists featured, sure to inspire and lead to many thoughtful conversations and constructive ideas.
Australian Reading Hour
Celebrating History Week 2021: 鈥淔rom the ground up鈥
Happy History Week!听The听听has curated a fantastic line-up of activities exploring this year鈥檚听theme: 鈥淗istory: from the ground up.鈥澨齀f you鈥檙e looking for your next history read, here are some recent and forthcoming highlights from the SUP list (you can explore many more听on our website).
Q & A with Denise Varney, author of Patrick White鈥檚 Theatre
Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches Australian theatre and performance, and modern and contemporary drama. Her new book,听Patrick White鈥檚 Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960鈥2018, explores how听White鈥檚 plays have been staged and received over a period of 60 years, and offers a new analysis of听his place in wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.
Image: a production of The Ham Funeral by Patrick White, State Theatre Company of South Australia.听
For too long, research was done on First Nations peoples, not with them. Universities can change this
Publishing historical archaeology
By Prof. Martin Gibbs
The Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology听(ASHA)听was founded in 1970 to promote the newly created field of historical archaeology within Australia. At the core of this fascinating cross-disciplinary collaboration between archaeologists, historians and historical geographers lies the desire to understand the early colonial period of Australia including cross-cultural contacts between Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups.