The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
The AHA was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians – academic, professional and other – working in all fields of history. We have over 900 members represented by an Executive Committee that draws its members from all over the country. The Association holds an annual conference and administers a portfolio Read more ...
Monday 2 – Friday 6 July 2018, at Australian National University, Canberra Historians make choices about the scale of their inquiry. They set parameters for their projects – temporal, geographical, social, archival – which shape their research strategies, their potential audiences, and their interpretations and arguments. Do you write history on a grand or intimate Read more ...
History Australia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association, and is proudly published by Taylor & Francis. All members of the AHA receive a subscription to the journal. History Australia aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia Read more ...
Monday 2 – Friday 6 July 2018, at Australian National University, Canberra Historians make choices about the scale of their inquiry. They set parameters for their projects – temporal, geographical, social, archival – which shape their research strategies, their potential audiences, and their interpretations and arguments. Do you write history on a grand or intimate Read more ...
History Australia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association, and is proudly published by Taylor & Francis. All members of the AHA receive a subscription to the journal. History Australia aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia Read more ...
AHA members have exclusive access to notices about funding opportunities, positions vacant and calls for papers, as well as extra events and news items. Members also receive a weekly newsletter and subscription to the AHA journal History Australia which publishes refereed articles that draw on new historical research or address ways of teaching, exhibiting or Read more ...
Emeritus Professor Duncan Bruce Waterson Duncan was born in Matamata, New Zealand, on 14 April 1935. He graduated from Auckland University College in 1959 with an MA Honours (first class) and became a junior lecturer in history at the University of Auckland. His career then internationalised. From 1961 to 1963 he completed his PhD at Read more …
We are delighted to announce that Bethany Phillips-Peddlesden has been newly appointed to the AHA Executive Officer position. All correspondence should continue to be addressed to executive@theaha.org.au. Warmest thanks to Jacinta Walsh and Vanessa Fleming-Baillie for their interim work maintaining the Newsletter and other duties in the past few months. Thanks again to Ann Standish for her Read more …
The Australian Historical Association is delighted to announce the winners of its 2018 prizes and awards. Winners were announced on Thursday 5 July 2016, at the AHA Annual Conference dinner in Canberra. (Click on links to read judges’ citations.) The Jill Roe Prizeis awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work of historical research in Read more …
Nominations for all positions on the AHA executive committee meeting were opened to the membership in April and closed on 28 June. I am pleased to inform you that we received the following nominations for the executive committee 2018-2020: President Joy Damousi Vice-President Melanie Oppenheimer Honorary Secretary Noah Riseman Honorary Treasurer Lisa Featherstone Five (5) Read more …
The Australian Historical Association is delighted to announce the shortlists for its 2018 prizes and awards. Winners will be announced on Thursday 5 July 2018. The W.K. Hancock Prize recognises and encourages an Australian scholar who has published a first book in any field of history in 2016 or 2017. The $2,000 prize was instituted in Read more …
Letter sent to Joint Standing Committee AHA submission Inquiry into National Institutions
Congratulations to Michael Belgrave from Massey University, who has been awarded the 2018 Ernest Scott Prize for Dancing with the King. His book documents the rise and fall of the King Country, an independent state governed by the Māori King where settlers and the Crown entered at risk of their lives between 1864 and 1885. Read more …
law&history, vol. 5:1 (2018) acknowledges the 180th anniversary of the Myall Creek massacre with Ann Curthoys leading a forum discussion on its significance and meaning, and Tim Rowse considering the moral position of the colonial Native Police. Articles by legal historians illuminate other issues of importance in colonial and imperial history: the ownership of mapping Read more …
The AHA was saddened to learn of the death AHA member Sally Percival Wood, a highly respected Melbourne-based historian with an interest in the political, cultural and social upheavals brought about by decolonisation in the twentieth-century. Sally completed her PhD at Deakin University in 2011, after which she worked as Manager, Applied Research and Analysis Read more …
In this week’s post, Jatinder Mann offers some personal reflections on his journey to secure an ongoing position in academia. Read it here.