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 ...
Congratulations to Peggy Brock and Tom Gara on this edited collection, which traces the on-going impact of colonialism on Aboriginal individuals, communities and cultures, the disruptions and displacements it has caused, and Aboriginal responses to these challenges. It includes a series of regional histories interspersed with Aboriginal life stories. Contributors include AHA members Peggy Brock, Read more …
Congratulations to Skye Krichauff on the publication her new book, which takes the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants’ historical consciousness as a starting point, then combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate the many intertwined ways the colonial past is known. The book is Read more …
Warm congratulations to AHA members Frank Bongiorno, Nicholas Brown, Klaus Neumann and Melanie Oppenheimer, all of whom have been have been elected as Fellows to the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia. This is an outstanding achievement and well deserved recognition of their distinguished contributions to the history discipline. Further information.
In each episode of Shooting the Past (Radio National, Friday 1:30 pm, repeated Sunday 1:30), Clare Wright starts her exploration of a historical event or era with a single photograph. Episodes can be downloaded from the Radio National website. Further information.
The Australian Women’s History Network blog is running a fascinating and timely series on marriage equality. Read about Marriage in Homosexual Histories, LGBTI Military Service Members and their Partners and Legalising History in the Marriage Equality Debate.
Dr Lyndon Megarrity is a historian currently based in Townsville who has taught history and political science at tertiary level over a number of years. He offers some great advice for those trying to navigate the world of history… read it here.
On Thursday 19 October 2017, 6:00 to 7.30pm, Lynette Russell, President of the AHA and Director, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University will present the 2nd Bicentennial Australian History Lecture (hosted by the Department of History, the University of Sydney) in the General Lecture Theatre, The Quadrangle, University of Sydney. As commonly presented, Australia’s past seems Read more …
The AHA is deeply saddened by the death of Emeritus Professor Bruce Mansfield AM and offers condolences to his family. Influential in both Australian history and Early Modern European history, Bruce Mansfield held the first history chair at Macquarie University from 1965 and served as Vice-Chancellor (Academic) of that university from 1976 to 1985. He Read more …
Gemmia completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 2010 earlier this year and is currently working two jobs, full time as a cultural heritage consultant at Australian Heritage Specialists, and as a casual research assistant at UQ. Read about her experiences as an emerging historian here.
Get a headstart on reading the next issue of History Australia by accessing articles as they come online. Newly uploaded over the past week are Jill Julius Matthews, ‘My Life in History: Good and Mad Women Redux’; Joan Beaumont, ‘Soldier Settlement Revisited’and a number of great book reviews. Members, log in to the AHA site, Read more …