Chariot

18/07/2024

It’s that time of year again 🌚
Have you ever written an essay for your history class and thought “damn I actually slayed in that”? Or do you have a short story set in the 18th century that is moving enough to rival ‘Pride and Prejudice’? If not, surely you’ve watched at least one historical fiction film in your life where you thought it was compete garbage, and you realised that at the end of the film, you’d just wasted 2 hours and 43 minutes of your life that you were never going to get back (*cough* Troy *cough*).

All this is to say that ‘Chariot’ Volume 7 will be dropping in October, and we want your submissions! In an effort to be more organised than last year, the cut off for receiving pieces will be Sunday the 25th of August. We take essays, reviews, short fiction, poetry, and illustrations so long as they pertain to history, and are under 2,000 words in order to fit within the page limit of our printing company. Like last year, ‘Chariot’ will have physical copies this year, so if you’ve ever wanted to see your work in a book, now is the time to do something about it!

Please submit all pieces to [email protected] by the cutoff deadline. As a student journal, we only accept submissions from current students.

24/04/2024

The deadline for our short story competition has been extended to Tuesday the 7th of May 11:59pm!!!

DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO TUESDAY THE 7TH OF MAY 11:59PM!!!

Attention Charioteers!

Are you looking for a creative challenge? Something to distract yourself from your upcoming assignments? Well, look no further because Chariot is holding a short story competition!

We challenge you to write, in 2,000 words or less, a short story that encompasses the theme “monumental”. Interpret it however you will, but our key requirement is that your piece contains distinct links to history in some capacity.

But what exactly do you have to gain from this? A good question! For our first prize winner – not only will we guarantee their piece’s inclusion in printed Volume 7 of Chariot, they’ll also be rewarded with a $30 Readings voucher. A second prize winner will also be chosen, and will receive a $15 voucher to the Professors Walk cafe.

The winner will be determined by careful consideration from our committee, and submissions will be judged based on:

- Writing ability
- Incorporation of the theme
- Relevance to history

Get your pen and start writing, because submissions are due on Tuesday the 7th of May at 11:59pm AEST. Please direct all submissions to [email protected], and make sure you mention in the subject heading of the email that your piece is for this competition. All other regular submissions to Chariot are still OPEN during this time too. Good luck!

01/04/2024

DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO TUESDAY THE 7TH OF MAY 11:59PM!!!

Attention Charioteers!

Are you looking for a creative challenge? Something to distract yourself from your upcoming assignments? Well, look no further because Chariot is holding a short story competition!

We challenge you to write, in 2,000 words or less, a short story that encompasses the theme “monumental”. Interpret it however you will, but our key requirement is that your piece contains distinct links to history in some capacity.

But what exactly do you have to gain from this? A good question! For our first prize winner – not only will we guarantee their piece’s inclusion in printed Volume 7 of Chariot, they’ll also be rewarded with a $30 Readings voucher. A second prize winner will also be chosen, and will receive a $15 voucher to the Professors Walk cafe.

The winner will be determined by careful consideration from our committee, and submissions will be judged based on:

- Writing ability
- Incorporation of the theme
- Relevance to history

Get your pen and start writing, because submissions are due on Tuesday the 7th of May at 11:59pm AEST. Please direct all submissions to [email protected], and make sure you mention in the subject heading of the email that your piece is for this competition. All other regular submissions to Chariot are still OPEN during this time too. Good luck!

18/03/2024

In our newest article ’The Myth of the Past - How Well Do We Know Babylon?’ Rhiann Thomas examines how studies of the ancient city and its mythology have been largely influenced and impacted by Eurocentrism and colonialism.

Read the full article on our website!

Author: Rhiann Thomas Sub-editor: Joe Murray Image credits: Martin, John. The Fall of Babylon; Cyrus the Great Defeating the Chaldean Army. 1831. Mezzotint, with watercolour. Wellcome Collection. C…

04/03/2024

Use the link below, search ‘Chariot Journal UMSU’ on Google or follow the linktree on our Instagram page to renew your membership with Chariot and stay up to date with us in 2024!

https://umsu.unimelb.edu.au/buddy-up/clubs/clubs-listing/join/8047/

22/02/2024

Attention Charioteers!

We’re very excited to announce that applications for 2024 Sub-Editors are now officially open!

Whether you’re a devoted reader of our articles, a newer Charioteer, or are just a history buff who’s looking to get involved in some extracurricular activities at uni, look no further.

If you’re interested, be sure to fill out the Expression of Interest Google Form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGz-XFwNwonPp1Lv6fe7nEy2luXy1jE60GSpi7vzBgyx3VOw/viewform.

Applications will close on Friday March 8 at 5 p.m. AEDT.

In other news, the staff at Chariot and members of the other SHAPS disciplines are holding their Welcome Back Pub Night on Wednesday February 28 from 5:15-8:15 at the Clyde Hotel Beer Garden and Lounge. There will be free food and drinks provided, and it’s a great opportunity to make some new friends! (Please be sure to RSVP through the FB event link if you’re planning on attending)

Be sure to visit the Chariot Journal stall at the Summerfest Clubs Expo today, February 23rd from 11-2:30 at the Student Precinct. Our President Tahlia will be more than happy to answer any of your questions regarding the sub-editor positions, or any other questions about what we do at Chariot.

Best of luck!

20/02/2024

In one of Chariot’s first articles for 2024, Nicholas Eastham discusses Freud’s theories and practices of psychoanalysis as they pertain to the larger sociocultural conceptions of homos*xuality during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that his contribution to understanding the psychological dimension and psychoanalytical aetiologies of s*xuality were only moderate during this period.

Click the link to read the full article:

Author: Nicholas Eastham Sub-editor: Fergus Sinnott Image credits: Man and woman kissing while seated on a chair. Gelatin silver copy print. 1890-1893. Content warning: homophobia Though Sigmund Fr…

06/12/2023

“I needed to touch the marble, to sit on the steps, to breathe the air I was so sure would have a slight musty scent like my father’s dark and cosy office at home. To be in front of the building I had heard so much about was nothing short of a story come to life.”

An excerpt from fiction piece ‘The Rosetta Stone’ by Erica Frances. Subedited by Lillian Gutteridge

Read more on our website!

Author: Erica Frances Sub-editor: Lillian Gutteridge Image credit: Dawes, Robin, Rosetta Stone, June 11, 2015, Flickr. Accessed October 10, 2023, Author’s Note: The following piece has an air of r…

20/10/2023

“Alexander had tunnel vision. He overheard various times that his death was an inevitability after all he had done. How could his people believe such lies? Alexander could not die.”

An excerpt from Georgia Felton’s The Great’s Continuation, a short fiction piece on Alexander the Great.
Subedited by Grace Vanderkolk

Author: Georgia Felton Sub-editor: Grace Vanderkolk Image credit: Brouwers, A. 2018, 14 October. “The Alexander Mosaic: Experiencing a masterpiece.” Ancient World Magazine. Prologue Babylon was a s…

18/10/2023

Volume 6: Recollection has arrived!

The process of recalling history is a complex and ever-changing one. In this volume, we have presented students' musings on the practice of historical recollection and the mediums through which historical narratives can be delivered. Volume 6 is a poignant collection of how we, as young historians, can recast histories in original, meaningful and nuanced ways.

Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

16/10/2023

We are thrilled to announce the launch party for volume 6, Recollection!
Come along for readings, food, and the chance to connect (or reconnect) with fellow history enthusiasts!
📍Arts West North Wing room 561
⏰Wednesday 18th October, 5:30 pm onwards

13/10/2023

In ‘Busting the Mussolini Myth’, Dominique Jones reviews ‘Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator’, in which author Paul Corner endeavours to demystify the true Italian attitude toward fascism under Mussolini’s regime, and current memory-making, which has seen modern Italy divorce itself from its dictatorial past.
Read more on our blog!

Author: Dominique Jones Sub-editor: Fergus Sinnott Image credit: Corner, Paul. Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator. 2022. amazon.com.au/Mussolini-Memory-First-Totalitarian…

08/10/2023

“An omission of the match is perhaps understandable, since it did not decide who would be gold medallists, but to omit the entirety of a sport, when only twenty were being competed in, highlights the extent to which the Hungarian narrative of symbolic resistance, however compelling, contradicted the Australian narrative of a friendly games. Thus the film, as an official record that bears authority both through source and mode, made this controversy uncontroversial through non-existence.”

From ‘Why did the 1956 Blood in the Water Match Fail to Create a Lasting Historical Legacy?’ by Mal Priestley.

Author: Mal Priestley Sub-editor: Dominique Jones Image credit: C2477 [Water Polo Hungary v USSR Spectators who jumped onto the concourse cluster around Hungarian Zador who had been injured in braw…

05/10/2023

Jesse Allen’s ‘Expel The Barbarians: The Meiji Restoration on the Silver Screen’ explores the ways in which Zwick’s The Last Samurai reduces the period’s intricate socio-political transformations, figures, and competing visions for Japan’s future into a more West-centric and digestible Hollywood film.

Author: Jesse Allen Sub-editor: Fergus Sinnott Image credit: Toshimasa, Shunsai. Great Naval Maneuvers in Taketoyo Bay. 1890. Triptych of colour woodblock prints, 37 x 70.8 cm. Saint Louis Art Muse…

04/10/2023

In ‘Possession and Dispossession: deconstructing the Colonial Gaze in early Australian landscape art’, Hugh Magnus explores the ways in which early colonial artists depicted an unfamiliar landscape with an anglo-picturesque style, their relationship to the land and First Australians, the concept of ‘truth-telling’ in art, and how the landscape functions as a politico-cultural tool.

Read in full on our website

Author: Hugh Magnus Sub-editor: Joe Murray Image credit: John Glover, View of Hobart Town and Mount Wellington from Kangaroo Point, 1834, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra…

27/09/2023

🖼️🎨We are looking for a cover artist for Volume 6, our first print edition since 2018! 🎨🖼️

The theme will be 'Recollection', looking at the ways collective narratives shape our memory and study of historical events. You can choose to stray away from or adhere to the theme as you seem fit.
This can be a digital or traditional illustration, a collage, or mixed media, the choice is yours!
We only ask that this fits the specs of 210 x 297mm allowing for a 3mm border bleed, 300 dpi minimum, JPEG, PNG, or PDF format, and in the CMYK colour profile. Submitting in RGB is okay, just note the colours might be different to the original version.
Please submit to [email protected] by the end of Sunday, October 1st.

We look forward to your artwork!!!

19/09/2023

EDITION 6 IS A GO, CHARIOTEERS!
We are thrilled to announce we are opening submissions for our first print edition (edit: since 2018)!
There is no set theme -- just send your best works under 2,000 words to [email protected] by this Sunday, the 24th of September.

21/08/2023

In 'From Fasces to Fascism: Analysing Mussolini's Impact on Ancient Rome', Tahlia Antrobus looks at the ways Mussolini imposed himself onto emperors of the Roman Empire and established a fascist "cult of Roman antiquity", which facilitated the atrocities committed under his leadership, and has continued to taint Roman historical and archaeological studies.
Subedited by Joe Murray
Read on our blog,

Author: Tahlia Antrobus Sub-editor: Joe Murray Image credit: Mussolini in archive footage taken from Alberto Cavalcanti’s Yellow Caesar. 1941 The 20th Century was without a doubt a period cat…

16/08/2023

"Torture was undoubtedly pivotal to the interrogation process in a system where confession from suspected witched provided a vital gateway to the world of the Devil for legal authorities."
Leandro Tirella writes in 'Torture in Early Modern Europe: How torture propelled witch-hunts through their peak and end'.
Subedited by Molly Lidgerwood

Read full article here:

Author: Leandro Tirella Sub-editor: Molly Lidgerwood Image credit: Folter von Frau und Tochter eines Fuhrmanns in Mellingen Hans Ueli. 1577. Illustration from the Wickiana (Collection of Johann Jak…

27/07/2023

"…formal institutional factors of the Qing political economy and informal socio-cultural factors in Chinese society played an important role in hindering Chinese merchants’ ability and willingness to pursue industrialisation."

In ‘Institutional Forces Opposing Merchant Industrialisation in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)'
Written by Jeremy Yu Chen Ho,
Subedited by Porter Mattinson

Author: Jeremy Yu Chen Ho Sub-editor: Porter Mattinson Image credit: The Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Tour: Scroll Six – Districts Detail. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Columbia University…

26/07/2023

On our website now,

‘Remember their Names, Fight for the Living’: Tracking the effect of AIDS on male homos*xual liberation in the late 20th century'
Written by Levy Perrett,
Subedited by Grace Vanderkolk

"The response to the AIDS crisis from homos*xuals represented a new era of activism that increased visibility, demystified and normalised attitudes while simultaneously adapting the community’s representation to the contemporary political and social climate."

Read more by clicking the link below

Author: Levy Perrett Sub-editor: Grace Vanderkolk Image credit: Scott Applewhite, J. [ACT-UP Activists Protest the FDA]. 1987. CW: Homophobia The emergence of AIDS in the early 1980s, while initial…

25/07/2023

‘Imperialism and Divine Authority: the Use of Achaemenid Art and Architecture as Political Symbols’
Written by Indigo Coulson,
Subedited by Fergus Sinnott

Read now on our site by clicking on the link below!

Happy beginning of semester 2, Charioteers!
Now that holidays are over, social media posts of new blog additions will be more consistent and timely. We will be uploading the recent posts to our social media over the couple following days. 🐎🪽⚜️

Author: Indigo Coulson Sub-editor: Fergus Sinnott Image credit: Behistun Inscription (Bistoun/Bisotoun), dated ca. 520 BC, in Persia. Photo by Hamidreza Sorouri / Persian Dutch Network. Monumental …

08/06/2023

Through the lens: the place of the s*x worker in Soviet society during glasnost as depicted in Todorovsky’s Intergirl (1989)

Author: Dominique Jones

Sub-editor: Lillian Gutteridge

Jones uses the Todorovsky film Intergirl to analyse Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost and its impact on the s*xual revolution within the USSR.

Author: Dominique Jones Sub-editor: Lillian Gutteridge Image credit: Pyotr Todorovsky, Interdevochka, 1989. With the advent of glasnost (Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of governmental openness an…

08/06/2023

Unmasking the Many-Faced God: Dionysus as a Figure of Fluidity in Archaic and Classical Greece

Author: Tahlia Antrobus

Sub-editor: Fergus Sinnott

Using various early depictions of Dionysus in the Archaic and Classical eras, Antrobus looks at the ways in which he flowed between masculine and feminine, drawing the following of marginalised groups — a major challenge to the expectation Greek men had to conform to a singular, rigid idea of masculinity.

Bit of a late Facebook post (take it as increased exposure 😳)

Author: Tahlia Antrobus Sub-editor: Fergus Sinnott Image credit: A Bacchanalian Revel by R.A. William Etty, and The Priestess of Bacchus by John Collier. Of all the gods shrouded in mystery and pos…

18/04/2023

New post now live on the Chariot blog!

'Context and its Consequences: The Mystery of Median Art'
Written by Bridget Bracken
Edited by Pamela Piechowicz

"... the uncertain classification of artefacts as Median without definite proof ... serves to confuse what is certainly Median with what is an amalgamation of Near Eastern artistic styles."
Click below to read

Author: Bridget Bracken Sub-editor: Pamela Piechowicz Image Credit: Medes and Persians at eastern stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis. Wikipedia Commons. The Iron-Age Iranian peoples known …

24/03/2023

Destroying to Replace: Witnessing Settler Transformations of Naarm/Melbourne

“Despite significant changes made by British settler-colonists in the nineteenth century, the overall project of settler colonialism is always incomplete. Settler colonisation is an ongoing process with ongoing resistance and tensions. Transformation to spaces are never complete or total.”

Written by Luciana Nicholson Marshall. Edited by Molly Lidgerwood.

Read online here: https://chariotjournal.wordpress.com/2023/03/22/destroying-to-replace-witnessing-settler-transformations-of-naarm-melbourne/

08/03/2023

🐎📚⚜️ Alert, Charioteers! 🐎📚⚜️
Subeditor applications are now due this Friday, the 10th of March at 5 pm AEDT. All it takes is emailing [email protected] with an expression of interest.
Don’t miss out!

20/02/2023

Charioteers!!!

Sub-editor applications are now open! If you would be interested in the role, please send us an email with an expression of interest. We will also be calling out at the SGM for those interested. A sub-editing test will be sent out in the weeks following the SGM on Monday, 6th March.

The sub-editing role includes:
-To edit works intended for publishing (ranging from essays/reviews/short-fiction)
-To liaise with the work’s author to finalise editing suggestions
-To communicate with the Chariot editor/s and president, when problems occur
-To submit content to Chariot when possible
-To promote Chariot where applicable

This is a really fun role, and how most people begin their journey with Chariot ✨📚🐎