About Hannah Forsyth

I am a historian based in the Blue Mountains, Australia and author of Virtue Capitalists: the rise and fall of the professional class in the Anglophone world and A History of the Modern Australian university. My research focuses on the past and present of work, education and capitalism. I write both scholarly and popular history and commentary. My substack is https://hannahforsyth.substack...

Hannah Forsyth is author of Virtue Capitalists and the substack F*cking Capitalism https://hannahforsyth.substack.com/.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Hannah:

Geraldine Fela, "Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia's AIDS Crisis" (UNSW Press, 2024)

June 3, 2026

Critical Care

Geraldine Fela
Hosted by Hannah Forsyth

The claim that real change is enabled by grassroots, community-based movements might seem a distant ideal, but Dr Geraldine Fela shows such assertions…

Sean Scalmer, "A Fair Day's Work: The Quest to Win Back Time" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

May 29, 2026

A Fair Day's Work

Sean Scalmer
Hosted by Hannah Forsyth

Australia has a special place in the history of struggle for a Fair Day's Work. In giving a history of Australian worker struggles over the length of…