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 ...
Australian National University 2–6 July 2018 From Big History to Microhistory, Global History to Local History, from a single document to a large collection, the scale of history varies greatly. Do you write history on a grand or intimate scale? Or both? Join us at the 2018 AHA conference to ponder these questions and more. 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 ...
The AHA Executive Committee would like to say a huge thank you to the 417 people who made time to complete our 2017 survey. The survey was publicly available but only 13 non-current AHA members responded. A summary of the findings and graphical representations of the data collected is available for AHA members.
Australian National University 2–6 July 2018 From Big History to Microhistory, Global History to Local History, from a single document to a large collection, the scale of history varies greatly. Do you write history on a grand or intimate scale? Or both? Join us at the 2018 AHA conference to ponder these questions and more. 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 ...
The AHA’s Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship intended to assist early-career historians further their research in Australian history. It is available to all early career historians (within five years of the award of their PhD degree), whether academic, professional, or public historians working in museums, war memorials and other institutions. Funding of up Read more …
Congratulations to Norman Etherington on the publication of this book in January. In a series of thematically linked chapters, he explores the work of writers Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard and John Buchan along with the composer Edward Elgar and the architect Herbert Baker. Further information.
Congratulations to Jane Haggis, Clare Midgley, Margaret Allen and Fiona Paisley, whose co-authored book was launched at the AHA conference in July. The book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact zones. Further information.
Congratulations to Rebecca Jones, for her recent publication. In this account of families living on the Australian land, she shows the story of drought through the histories of eight farming families, stretching from the 1870s to the 1950s, with a focus on private lives and inner thoughts, revealed by personal diaries. Further information.
The Honest History website has new material, as advised in Honest History’s Newsletter No. 45. There are reviews of Australian Lives, edited by Anisa Puri and Alistair Thomson, Ashton’s Hotel, Rhonnda Harris’s edition of the diaries of the first governor of the Adelaide Gaol, and The Vimy Trap, by Canadian authors, Ian McKay and Jamie Swift. (‘Vimyism’ in Read more …
Wakefield Press are publishing a revised edition of Jill Roe’s history of Theosophy in Australia, Beyond Belief, originally published in 1986 in a limited edition by New South Wales University Press and out of print for many years. The new edition will make this classic of Australian history available to a new generation of readers, Read more …
Get to know the AHA’s amazing and hardworking president, Professor Lynette Russell, here in this month’s Q&A, where she talks about how and why she is inspired to write history and her vision for the Australian historical association as well as the future of the discipline. In the Emerging Historian series, meet Claire Wright, an economic Read more …
Congratulations to Paul Strangio, Paul ‘t Hart and James Walter for their new book, which will be published on 28 August 2017. This second volume about the history of Australian prime ministers looks at how although prime ministership remains the main prize in Australian politics, it has become an increasingly precarious one. The book explains the Read more …
Chelsea Barnett, Isobelle Barrett Meyering, James Keating and Sophie Robinson organised the Australian Women’s History Network conference, ‘Symbiotic Histories’, held on 5 July 2017 in conjunction with the Australian Historical Association conference. A month on, they reflect on lessons learned along the way. Further information.
Congratulations to Ann Howard on two publications focusing on the hidden stories of Australians during World War II. You’ll be Sorry! How World War II Changed Women’s Lives (Big Sky Publishing, 2016) contains many firsthand accounts, documents and photographs that provide fascinating into women’s participation in the war effort. A Carefree War: The Hidden History Read more …