Henningham, Nicola

Entry type: Person
Entry ID: AWE4489

(1960 – )

Born 1 January, 1960, Dunedin New Zealand
Occupation Academic, Historian

Summary

Nicola (Nikki) Henningham is the Executive Officer for the Australian Women’s Register. She completed her PhD, a study of gender and race in Northern Queensland during the colonial period, in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne in 2000. Since then, she has taught in a wide range of undergraduate subjects, including world history, film and history and Australian history, and has conducted research for a variety of projects, including the Australian Women’s Archives Project. She has research interests in the general area of Australian women’s history, with a particular focus on women and sport, women and oral history and the relationship between the keeping of archives and the construction of history. In 2005, she received the National Archives of Australia’s Ian Mclean Award for her work in this area.

Published resources

Journal Article
- Hats off, gentlemen, to our Australian mothers.': Representations of White Femininity in North Queensland in the Early Twentieth Century., Henningham, Nikki, 2001
- Uncovering Migrant Women's Stories, Henningham, Nikki, 2006
Conference Paper
- Out of the Shadows: Using Technology to Illuminate Women's Archive, Evans, Joanne; Henningham, Nikki and Morgan, Helen, 2009
Thesis
- Perhaps if there had been more women in the north, the story would have been different: Gender and Race in North Queensland 1840-1930., Henningham, Nikki, 2000
Article
- Net surfing gets one for the girls, Webb, Carolyn, 2007, https://www.theage.com.au/technology/net-surfing-gets-one-for-the-girls-20070117-ge404y.html
- Inspiring Women in Journalism, Haxton, Nance, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/corp/communications/access/stories/s2432534.htm
Resource
- She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Perspective, 2007, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/perspective/stories/2007/1973839.htm
- Trove
Book Section
- A Mother of Heroes For Our New Home: Representations of White Women as the Victims of Frontier Violence in Colonial North Queensland, Henningham, Nikki, 2002

Archival resources

National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Heather McKay interviewed by Nikki Henningham [sound recording]
- Matina Mottee interviewed by Nicola Henningham [sound recording].
- Shirley Stott Despoja interviewed by Nikki Henningham [sound recording]
- Ann Mitchell interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Sport oral history project [sound recording]
- Belinda Hazell interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording]
- Bev Reaston interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Clair O'Brien interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording]
- Clare McShane interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording]
- Betty Wilson interviewed by Nicola Henningham [sound recording]
- Diana Bryant interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Diane Fingleton interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Heather Reid interviewed by Nikki Henningham [sound recording]
- Irene Watson interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Jane Bennett interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording]
- Janine Pritchard interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Jenni Hill interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Jocelynne Scutt interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Judy Eckert interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Mary Ann Yeats interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Nerida Wilson interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Pat Turner interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy oral history project [sound recording]
- Patricia Conroy interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Patti Chong interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Robin Banks interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Robyn Tredwell interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording]
- Rosemary Follett interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy oral history project [sound recording]
- Sally Gearin interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Sally Mitchell interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording]
- Sally Thomas interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Shan Tennent interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Sue Gordon interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Sue Oliver interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Sue Salthouse interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy oral history project [sound recording]
- Tamara Jago interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project
- Wendy Craik interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy oral history project [sound recording]
- Wendy McCarthy interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Women and leadership in a century of Australian democracy oral history project [sound recording]
- Meredith Edwards interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia collection [sound recording]
- Mary Salce interviewed by Nikki Henningham
- Suzy Javor interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Sport oral history project [sound recording]

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- First Ladies: Finding Women in Public Record Office Victoria
- Australian In My Difference: Women and Migration in Australia Since 1945
- Being Seen And Heard: Migrant Women Organising In Australia, A Documentary History (2006 - )
- She's Game: Women making Australian sporting history
- The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism Since 1850
Related Women
- Grimshaw, Patricia (1938 - )
- Curphey, Judith (1929 - )
Interviewer
- The Trailblazing Women and the Law Project (2013 - 2016)
Executive Officer
- Australian Women's Archives Project (2000 - )
Related Concepts
- History and Historians

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