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 ...
Congratulations to editor Jane Lydon and contributors including other AHA members for the publication of their new book Visualising Human Rights (UWA Publishing 2018). This edited collection looks at the ways that visual images have been used to define, contest, or argue on behalf of human rights. This book explores ideas of humanity, citizenship, atrocity and justice through the visual. It is Read more …
UTS Research Fellow Dr Alana Piper is running a survey on public interest and attitudes towards crime history. Any participation in the survey, or promotion of it to members’ organisations, email lists or students, is much appreciated. This anonymous online survey takes 5-10 minutes to complete. Further information.
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Emeritus Professor John Molony: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/act/anu-historian-john-molony-dead-at-91-20180920-p5050a.html. After many years as a Catholic priest, John Molony began his academic career at the Australian National University in the mid-1960s, becoming one of Australia’s most respected historians, Manning Clark Professor of Australian History and Head of the Department of History Read more …
Over the past eight years, ANU historian Martin Thomas has been working on Etched in Bone, a feature-length documentary made that he has made in collaboration with Béatrice Bijon from ANU’s School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. The film examines the theft of Aboriginal human remains by the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in Read more …
Congratulations to the contributors to the newly published French Australian Review, no. 64 (Winter 2018), published by affiliate organisation the Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Further information.
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 …