The stories of South Asian and Chinese ayahs and amahs — nursemaids and domestic servants — reveal crucial details about women’s domestic labour, race and class in Australia’s settler colonial history.

In a recent article, titled ‘Tracing the travelling ayahs & amahs in Australia’s colonial past‘, published on the Australian Academy of Humanities website, University of Newcastle historian, Professor Victoria Haskins FRSN FAHA, wonders: why such stories remain elusive?

In this ARC-funded research, Professor Haskins explores why these women’s stories are largely undocumented and forgotten, despite their presence in Australia’s colonial past, and their transcolonial movement across the British Empire.

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