Associate Professor Dolly MacKinnon
Honorary Associate Professor in Early Modern History
Researcher biography
Dr Dolly MacKinnon is an Associate Professor in Early Modern History at The University of Queensland. Her research background spans history and music, and her cultural history research, teaching, and service concentrate on the marginalized and institutionalized by analysing the mental, physical (including material culture) and auditory landscapes of past cultures.
Dolly won the inaugural Arts Faculty Research Excellence Award for Senior Researchers (2011) at The University of Queensland. Dolly was also awarded a UQ New Staff Research Fund (2011), a University of Queensland Promoting Women Fellowship (2014), and an inaugural Faculty Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (2015), Faculty of HASS, UQ.
She is an Associate Investigator (2012 & 2016) with the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions (The University of Queensland/The University of Western Australia) for the following two projects:
- ARC CHE AI Project 2012: Emotional Landscapes: English and Scottish battlefield memorials 1638-1936
- ARC CHE AI Project 2016: Soundscapes of Emotion: bell ringing in England c1500-c1800
Dolly's international research is demonstrated by her consistent collaborative grant successes including multiple ARC (both Linkage and Discoveries) projects, and an international Marsden Fund-Royal Society of New Zealand, totaling just under 1 million dollars.
Her most recent ARC grants include the following:
- ARC Discovery Grant ($249,000) with Professor Elizabeth Malcolm (The University of Melbourne) and Dr John Waller (Michigan State University).
Project: 'A History of psychiatric Institutions and community care in Australia, 1830-1990'). See online database, Australian Psychiatric Care: A History of Psychiatric Institutionalisation and Community Care in Australia c.1811-c.1990 (http://www.ahpi.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/researchteam.html) (2007-2011);
- ARC Linkage Grant ($149,000) with Professor Elizabeth Malcolm & Dr Nurin Veis (Museum Victoria) (2009-2012) at The University of Melbourne.
- ARC Discovery Grant ($300,000) with Megan Casidy-Welch (Monash University) analysing 'Battlefields of memory: places of war and remembrance in medieval and early modern England and Scotland' (2014-2016).
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Battlefields of memory: places of war and remembrance in medieval and early modern England and Scotland ARC Discovery Grant |
2014–2016 |
Publications
Book
MacKinnon, Dolly (2014). Earls Colne's early modern landscapes. Burlington, VT, United States: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315578361
Book Chapters
MacKinnon, Dolly (2023). War and conflict. A cultural history of youth in the Renaissance. (pp. 167-184) edited by Stephanie Olsen and Heidi Morrison. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2019). Emotional landscapes: battlefield memorials to seventeenth-century civil war conflicts in England and Scotland. Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss: Grief and Consolation in Space and Time. (pp. 92-109) edited by Jedan, Christoph, Maddrell, Avril and Venbrux, Eric. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2019). 'This humble monument of guiltless blood': the emotional landscape of Covenanter monuments. Writing war in Britain and France, 1370-1854: a history of emotions. (pp. 163-181) edited by Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch and Katrina O'Loughlin. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429446245-10
MacKinnon, Dolly (2019). She suffered for Christ Jesus’ sake: the Scottish Covenanters’ emotional strategies to combat religious persecution (1685–1714). Feeling exclusion: religious conflict, exile and emotions in early modern Europe. (pp. 165-182) edited by Giovanni Tarantino and Charles Zika. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429354335-10
MacKinnon, Dolly (2019). ‘The bell, like a speedy messenger, runs from house to house, and ear to ear’ The auditory markers of gender, politics and identity in England, 1500–1700. Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700–1850. (pp. 65-82) edited by Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan, David Ellison and Karen Crawley. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315609942-4
MacKinnon, Dolly (2018). ‘[D]id ringe at oure parish churche... for joye that the Queene of Skotts ... was beheaded’: public performances of early modern English emotions. Performing emotions in early Europe. (pp. 169-181) edited by Philippa Maddern, Joanne McEwan and Anne M. Scott. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. doi: 10.1484/M.EER-EB.5.115230
MacKinnon, Dolly (2016). 'The Ceremony of Tolling the Bell at the Time of Death': bell-ringing and mourning in England c.1500-c1700. Music and Mourning: interdisciplinary perspectives. (pp. 31-39) edited by Jane W. Davidson and Sandra Garrido. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Ashgate Publishing. doi: 10.4324/9781315596648
MacKinnon, Dolly (2016). ‘Jangled the belles, and with fearefull outcry, raysed the secure inhabitants’: emotion, memory and storm surges in the early modern East Anglian landscape. Disaster, death and the emotions in the shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700. (pp. 155-173) edited by Jennifer Spinks and Charles Zika. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-44271-0
MacKinnon, Dolly (2016). 'Good God Mrs Nicholson!': slaves and domestic disquiet in eighteenth-century Scotland. On discomfort: moments in a modern history of architectural culture. (pp. 8-23) edited by Andrew Leach and David Ellison. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315598826
MacKinnon, Dolly (2015). Slave children: Scotland's children as chattels at home and abroad in the eighteenth century. Children and youth in premodern Scotland. (pp. 120-135) edited by Janay Nugent and Elizabeth Ewan. Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom: Boydell Press.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2015). Hearing the poor: experiencing the sounds of charity in early modern England. Experiences of charity, 1250-1650. (pp. 239-256) edited by Anne M. Scott. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2015). "Ringing of the Bells by Four White Spirits": two seventeenth-century English earwitness accounts of the supernatural in print culture. Religion, the supernatural and visual culture in early modern Europe: an album amicorum for Charles Zika. (pp. 83-102) edited by Jennifer Spinks and Dagmar Eichberger. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004299016_006
MacKinnon, Dolly (2014). 'Echoes of life if you lived in the world': soundscapes and museums for the institutionalised. Silent system: forgotten Australians and the institutionalisation of women and children. (pp. 163-176) edited by Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2011). Bodies of evidence: dissecting madness in colonial Victoria (Australia). The body divided: human beings and human 'materials' in modern medical history. (pp. 75-107) edited by Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate.
MacKinnon, Dolly and Coleborne, Catharine (2011). Seeing and not seeing psychiatry. Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry through Collections and Display. (pp. 3-13) edited by Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2011). Snatches of music, flickering images and the smell of leather: The material culture of recreational pastimes in psychiatric collections in Scotland and Australia. Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry through Collections and Display. (pp. 84-100) edited by Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2009). ‘Amusements are provided’: Asylum entertainment and recreation in Australia and New Zealand c.1860-c.1945’. Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on Hospital and Asylum Visiting. (pp. 267-288) edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz. London, UK; Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi;Wellcome Trust. doi: 10.1163/9789042026322_016
MacKinnon, Dolly (2008). Charity is worth it when it looks that good: Rural women and bequests of clothing in early modern England. Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe. (pp. 79-93) edited by Stephanie Tarbin and Susan Broomhall. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2008). ‘I have now a book of songs of her writing’: Scottish families, orality, literacy, and the transmission of musical culture c1500-c1800’. Finding the family in medieval and early modern Scotland. (pp. 35-48) edited by Elizabeth Ewan and Janay Nugent. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2008). Charitable bodies : Clothing as charity in early-modern rural England. Practices of gender in late medieval and early modern Europe. (pp. 235-259) edited by Megan Cassidy-Welch and Peter Sherlock. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. doi: 10.1484/m.lmems-eb.3.759
MacKinnon, Dolly (2007). Hearing the English reformation: Earls Colne, Essex. Hearing places: Sound, place, time and culture. (pp. 255-267) edited by Ros Band, Michelle Duffy and Dolly MacKinnon. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Nichols, David, MacKinnon, Dolly and Reeves, Keir (2007). Goldfields asylums: Anxieties, evasions and erasures. Deeper leads : new approaches to Victorian goldfields history. (pp. 39-62) edited by Keir James Reeves and David Nichols. Ballarat, Vic., Australia: Ballarat Heritage Services.
Bandt, Ros, Duffy, Michelle and MacKinnon, Dolly (2007). Introduction. Hearing places: Sound, place, time and culture. (pp. 1-2) edited by Ros Band, Michelle Duffy and Dolly MacKinnon. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Mackinnon, Dolly (2003). Music: 16th and 17th centuries. Reader's guide to British history. (pp. 924-925) edited by David Loades. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2003). Music: plainsong and polyphony. Reader's guide to British history. (pp. 921-922) London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Coleborne, Catharine and MacKinnon, Dolly (2003). 'Madness' in Australia: Histories, heritage and the asylum. 'Madness' in Australia: Histories, heritage and the asylum. (pp. 1-8) edited by Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Press.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2003). 'Hearing madness': The soundscape of the asylum. 'Madness' in Australia: Histories, heritage and the asylum. (pp. 73-82) edited by Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Press.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2003). 'Jolly and fond of singing': The gendered nature of musical entertainment in Queensland mental institutions c1870-c1937. 'Madness' in Australia: Histories, heritage and the aslyum.. (pp. 157-168) edited by Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Press.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2003). Diaries, history of. Reader's guide to British history. (pp. 356-358) edited by David Loades. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Mackinnon, Dolly (2003). Music: instrumental and operatic, after 1660. Reader's guide to British history. (pp. 919-921) edited by David Loades. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Mackinnon, Dolly (2003). The godly family of the seventeenth century and John Howard’s Australia. Future imaginings: sexualities and genders in the new millennium. (pp. 101-116) edited by Delys Bird, Wendy Were and Terri-ann White. Crawley, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Press.
Journal Articles
Barclay, Katie, Hall, Dianne and MacKinnon, Dolly (2021). Children and war in early modern Europe. Parergon, 38 (2) 1, 1-12. doi: 10.1353/PGN.2021.0068
MacKinnon, Dolly (2021). 'A child drew the lots': children and youth experiencing the English Civil War. Parergon, 38 (2) 6, 131-155. doi: 10.1353/PGN.2021.0073
MacKinnon, Dolly (2020). Book review: Morillo, Stephen, with Michael F. Pavkovic, What is Military History?, 3rd end, rev. and updated. Cambridge, Polity, 2017: paperback; pp. viii, 183.. Parergon, 37 (1) Reviews A to Z: section for M, 273-275. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2020.0038
MacKinnon, Dolly (2019). Hearing early modern battles: soundscape audio as a way of recreating the past. Parergon, 36 (2) 5, 115-140. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2019.0057
MacKinnon, Dolly (2019). Book Review: Jennifer Wallis, Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Social History of Medicine, 33 (1), 338-339. doi: 10.1093/shm/hkz102
MacKinnon, Dolly (2017). Hearing madness and sounding cures: recovering historical soundscapes of the asylum. Politiques de communication, 2017 Hearing madness and sounding cures: recovering historical soundscapes of the asylum, 77-106.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2016). 'Correcting an Error in History': Battlefield Memorials at Marston Moor and Naseby. Parergon, 32 (3), 205-235. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2015.0189
MacKinnon, Dolly, Alexandra Walsham and Amanda Whiting (2016). Religion, memory and civil war in the British Isles. Parergon, 32 (3), 1-15. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2015.0181
Mackinnon, Dolly (2014). Religious history: Review of Alasdair Raffe, The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714 (The Boydell Press, 2013).. History Scotland, 14 (5), 55-55.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2012). Review of Angela McCarthy and Catharine Coleborne (eds), Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010 (New York & London: Routledge, 2012).. Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 12, 167-170.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2012). Music and Society in Early Modern England. Parergon, 29 (2), 278-279.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2012). Gender and the English revolution. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 (3), 468-469. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2012.01647.x
MacKinnon, Dolly (2011). ‘That brave company of shadows’: Gender, national identity, and the formation of children’s British history in Alison Uttley’s A Traveller in Time. Women's History Review, 20 (5), 809-827. doi: 10.1080/09612025.2011.622531
MacKinnon, Dolly (2011). The making of Irish traditional music. The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 11, 91-93.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2011). Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television. Journal of Health and History, 13 (1), 120-122.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2010). Parents of poor children in England, 1580-1800. Parergon, 27 (2), 212-214.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2009). Divine service, music, sport, and recreation as medicinal in Australian asylums 1860s-1945. Health and History, 11 (1), 128-148.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2009). Tuned Out: Traditional Music and Identity in Northern Ireland. The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 9, 172-175.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2009). Music and Madness. The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 9, 170-172.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2009). Review of Tutino, S., Law and Conscience: Catholicism in Early Modern England, 1570-1625 (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007. Parergon, 26 (1), 278-280. doi: 10.1353/pgn.0.0130
MacKinnon, Dolly (2008). Gender and Space in Early Modern England (review). Parergon, 25 (1), 213-215. doi: 10.1353/pgn.0.0035
Coleborne, Catharine and Mackinnon, Dolly (2006). Psychiatry and its institutions in Australia and New Zealand: An overview. International Review of Psychiatry, 18 (4), 371-380. doi: 10.1080/09540260600813248
MacKinnon, Dolly (2006). Music, madness, and the body: Symptom and cure. History of Psychiatry, 17 (1), 9-21. doi: 10.1177/0957154X06058596
MacKinnon, Dolly and Manathunga, Catherine (2003). Going global with assessment: what to do when the dominant culture's literacy drives assessment. Higher Education Research & Development, 22 (2), 131-144. doi: 10.1080/07294360304110
MacKinnon, Dolly and Coleborne, Catharine (2003). Deinstitutionalisation in Australia and New Zealand. Health and History: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 5 (2), 1-16. doi: 10.2307/40111450
MacKinnon, Dolly (2003). 'The Trustworthy Agency of the Eyes': Reading images of music and madness in historical context. Health and History: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 5 (2), 123-149. doi: 10.2307/40111456
Pols, Hans, Coleborne, Catharine and MacKinnon, Dolly (2003). 'Madness' in Australia: Histories, Heritage and the Asylum. Health and History, 5 (2), 153. doi: 10.2307/40111458
MacKinnon, Dolly (2001). "Poor senseless Bess clothed in her rags and folly": Early Modern Women, Madness, and Song in Seventeenth-Century England. Parergon, 18 (3), 119-151. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2011.0126
Conference Papers
MacKinnon, Dolly (2021). “The bell, like a speedy messenger, runs from house to house, and ear to ear”: the auditory markers of gender, politics and identity in England. Soundscapes in the Early Modern World, LIverpool, United Kingdom (Online), 5-9 July 2021.
Schubert, Emery, MacKinnon, Dolly, Collins, Denis and Garrido, Sandra (2017). Panel Discussion:'What’s missing in music and emotion research?'. The 3rd Conference of the Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS) including the 5th International Conference on Music and Emotion (ICME)., School of Music, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 7-9 December 2017..
MacKinnon, Dolly (2015). 'Correcting an error in history': conflicting memories in the civil war battlefield memorials of Marston Moor and Naseby. ANZAMEMS 2015: Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Tenth Biennial Conference, Brisbane, Qld, Australia, 14-18 July, 2015.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2013). "So to Naseby Field I went": early modern battlefield tourism and the English Civil Wars battle of Naseby, 14 June 1645. ANZAMEMS 2013: Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Ninth Biennial Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 12-16 February 2013. Clayton, VIC, Australia: Monash University.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2013). 'Echoes of life if you lived in the world': soundscapes and museums for the institutionalised. Memory: Trace, Place, Identity. Exploring the institutionalisation of women and children in Australia, Parramatta, NSW, Australia, 25 -27 September 2013.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2013). Emotional landscapes: battlefield memorials to seventeenth century civil war conflicts in England and Scotland. Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, Groningen, Netherlands, 1-3 July 2013.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2012). ‘Emotional Landscapes’: Civil Wars Battlefield Memorials 1642-1930. ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of the Emotions (UWA) Biennial Research Conferences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 1-2 November 2012.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2012). In the footsteps of antiquarians: the landscape of Earls Colne, Essex. Landscapes & Environments: British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 41st Conference UK), St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK, 4-6 January 2012.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2012). ‘If ever been where bells have knolled to church’: Parish bells, ritual, and social status in early modern England. Historicizing Performance in the Early Modern Period, University of Manchester, The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, UK., 20 January 2012.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2012). ‘Good God Mrs Nicolson’! : slaves and domestic disquiet in 18th–century Scotland. Discomfort Symposium, Brisbane QLD, Australia, 27 November 2012.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2011). ‘[D]id ringe at oure parish churche... for joye that the Queene of Skotts ... was beheaded’: Public performances of early modern English emotions. “Emotions Conference”, Australian Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 8-11 June 2011.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2011). ‘It will be enough, that hee lay his head upon an immortall Turff taken out of Naseby-field’: the landscape of memories and monuments to ‘14 June 1645’. Places of memory in medieval and early modern Europe, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, 30 September - 1 October 2011.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2011). Post mortem of ‘A Perfect execution’: 19th century Prison & Asylum doctors in the Scottish Diaspora. Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Conference, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 12-15 July 2011.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2010). The 20th-century Mental Hospital: A place in history but not in the adaptive reuse of surviving built heritage environments. 10th Australasian Urban History, Planning History Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 February 2010. Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne.
Manathunga, Catherine and MacKinnon, Dolly (2003). 'Worldmarks': Web guidelines for socially and culturally responsive assessment in university classrooms. Learning Conference 2002: The Ninth International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning, Beijing, China, 16-20 July 2002. Altona, VIC, Australia: Common Ground.
Manathunga, Catherine E. and MacKinnon, Dolly (2001). Socially and culturally responsive assessment: Preparing students for the new economy. Knowledge demands for the new economy., Parkroyal Surfers Paradise, Surfers Paradise, 3-5 December 2001. Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.
Video Document
Newspaper Article
MacKinnon, Dolly (2015, 08 08). Madness in Civilisation review: Andrew Scull's sweeping coverage and dark wit The Age
Audio Document
Malcolm, Elizabeth, Damousi, Joy and MacKinnon, Dolly (2012). Madness and Modernity. Radio National.
Reference Entry
MacKinnon, Dolly (2009). Scottish reformation.
Seminar Papers
MacKinnon, Dolly (2023). '‘Silence and Gasp in Royal Spectacle’"(20mins paper and 10mins question time), in Royale Spectacle and Court Performance, convened by Claire Walker, Katie Barclay and Paula Plastic.. Society for the History of Emotions, The Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender, University of Adelaide.
MacKinnon, Dolly, Groundwater, Anna, Delam, Rachel and Dean, Lucy (2023). Doing history in public: an early modern(ists’) perspective. History Talks Live/REMRA. History Talks Live/REMRA (Renaissance and Early Modern Research Alliance) co-badged roundtable event in which we welcome three speakers to reflect on doing and writing about public history as early modernists., University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2023). Soundscapes and Museum Exhibitions: The National Museum of Scotland 'Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites' Exhibition (2017). Sydney Society for Scottish History (Via Zoom).
MacKinnon, Dolly (2023). ‘Enslaved Children in Eighteenth-century Scotland’ (40 mins online seminar via ZOOM). Society of the Antiquarians of Scotland [Scotland and Australia via ZOOM], Society of the Antiquarians of Scotland (UK).
MacKinnon, Dolly (2021). Blood relatives and a forged tombstone: the Meylers in 18th-century Bristol and Jamaica.. Themed Workshop (ZOOM): 'imagining the family' [Funded by and part of a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council research "family inheritances".. History, University of Adelaide, Australia and Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom.
Generic Documents
Special Broadcasting Service and MacKinnon, Dolly (2019). Who Do You Think You Are? Season 10 Episode 7 (Featuring Kerri-Anne Kennerley). Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).
Creative Works
MacKinnon, Dolly and Macdonald, Sarah (2019). This Week in History: Catherine of Aragon, Australian Broadcasting Corporration (ABC), Radio National, Nightlife. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Southbank Studio, Melbourne: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Radio National, Nightlife.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2018). Hearing women as mad in the asylum: past perceptions haunting the present. http://www.auswhn.org.au/: Blog of the Australian Women's History Network.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2017). Anne Boleyn’s head. Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ABC Nightlife Radio.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2017). Oliver Cromwell’s Head. Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Nightlife Radio.
MacKinnon, Dolly, Poore, Emily and Helmrich, Michele (2015). Wunderkammer: the strange and the curious. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Davidson, Jane and Mackinnon, Dolly (2015). Royal Consort and the History of Emotions. Pre-concert lecture and performance. Presented by ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and Latitude 37 (early music ensemble). Melbourne Recital Centre, South Bank, Melbourne, Australia: ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800.
Davison, Jane, Nicholson, Donald and MacKinnon, Dolly (2013). Venus and Adonis A Masque in two interludes written by Colley Cibber (after Ovid) and set to music by John Christopher Pepusch, London 1715 [Guest Musician in orchestra: Baroque Recorder]. UQ Art Museum, The University of Queensland: ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800.
MacKinnon, Dolly (2011). Disability support in Australia. Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ABC Radio National.
Malcolm, Elizabeth, MacKinnon, Dolly and Waller, John (2011). Australian psychiatric care: a history of psychiatric institutions and community care in Australia c.1811-c.1990. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne.
Dickinson, David , Hamilton, Vivienne and MacKinnon, Dolly (2009). My Heart's in the Highlands - The Folk Songs of Robert Burns. Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ABC Classics FM: Music Makers.