ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Archive Fever is a new Australian history podcast featuring intimate conversations with writers, artists, curators, fellow historians and other victims of the research bug. Each episode, co-hosts Clare Wright and Yves Rees talk to archive addicts about what kind of archives they use, how often they use them, when they got their first hit. Join us as we ask: what madness is this?
Update frequency:
every 16 days
Average audio length:
39 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Australia
59 episodes
since Sept. 2, 2019
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this special live episode of Season 8, recorded at the Footscray West Writers Fest, Clare and Yves are joined by writer and academic Dr Micaela Sahhar to unlock the vast ephemera and stolen inheritance of the Palestinian diaspora.
How do archives and archiving operate as technologies of settl…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Every family has its secrets—but what happens when a writer dives into the family archive to uncover and share those stories with the world?
In this very special final episode of Season 7 (yes, already!) - recorded live on Gadigal land at the 2025 Sydney Writers Festival — Yves and Clare probe A…
As you tend your garden this summer, spare a thought for Alison Vaughan, responsible for no less than 1.5 million precious botanical specimens.
As collections manager at the National Herbarium of Victoria, which dates back to 1853, Alison stewards a vast archive of past and present biodiversity …
How did hearing Samuel Becket say ‘fuck it’ on a scratchy tape kickstart a multi-doctoral author’s archive addiction?
In this episode, Yves and Clare talk to Dr (Dr) Matthew Lamb about his colossal biography of colossus intellect, activist, journalist, novelist, publisher and archivist, Frank M…
In this raw and intimate episode, historian Dr Sophie Loy-Wilson spills the tea on the psychological rollercoaster of archival research: it offered the ‘biggest high’ and also ‘fucked [her] up’.
From her formative childhood experiences in Beijing, to stumbling upon a human tooth in a Queensland …
An archival decolonist walks into a colonial institution, and dreams up a whole new paradigm for cultural heritage.
Today on Archive Fever, Wiradjuri librarian and museum educator Nathan Sentance illuminates the challenges and possibilities of bringing Indigenous epistemologies and voices into t…
What does it feel like to be a young, urban, Jewish post-war migrant woman who grabs a camera and walks into the Australian desert, only to emerge 50 years later with an intimate archive of a civil rights movement?
In this very special episode, Yves and Clare are joined by legendary octogenaria…
Loot: to plunder or steal—an English word itself looted from the Hindi word lūṭ. To celebrate the launch of season 7, the inimitable Scottish-born historian William Dalrymple spills on the beans on the colonial loot that made modern Britain—and which today forms an archive of violence and extractio…
Clare and Matt speak to historian, author and fellow podcaster Yves Rees, author of the new book ‘Travelling to Tomorrow The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America’ (UNSW Press).
Don your rainbows (and beards) and get ready for the lavender haze of Australian history: Danielle Scrimshaw, author of She and Her Pretty Friend: The Hidden History of Australian Women Who Love Women (Ultimo, 2023), is in the studio to offer a queer eye for the straight historian. Why is queer his…
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