The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
Congratulations to Scott McKinnon on the publication of his book Gay Men at the Movies: Cinema, Memory and the History of a Gay Male Community (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Drawing on film reviews, media reports, personal memoirs, oral histories and a striking range of films, this book explores the major role cinema has played Read more …
The Honest History coalition has done a special update of its website for Remembrance Day (which is also the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Australian War Memorial). New on the site are Richard Reid’s reflection on Remembrance Day, a story of how Canberra activists successfully campaigned against a plan to build rival memorials Read more …
The recent round of ARC awards announced by Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, on 1 November 2016 included a significant number of grants within the broad fields of historical research, listed under the Field of Research two digit code DIV 21 History and Archaeology. We have put together a synthesis of Read more …
A reminder that registrations for this event close Friday 18 November. Everyone planning to attend the conference must register first, as seating is limited. There have been some issues with the website registration process, so the deadline to has been extended to Friday 18 November. Please contact Liam Byrne (Liam.byrne@unimelb.edu.au) or Joy Damousi (j.damousi@unimelb.edu.au) with Read more …
Congratulations to all historians honoured for their local history projects at the 2016 Victorian Community History Awards. These include AHA members Ian D. Clark, who won the Local History Project Award for ‘We Are All of One Blood’. A History of the Djabwurrung Aboriginal People of Western Victoria, 1836–1901 (CreateSpace) and James Kirby, who won Read more …
Congratulations to Benjamin Mountford, whose book Britain, China, and Colonial Australia (OUP) will be published in January 2017 and is now available to preorder. The book draws on a range of previously unexplored UK and Australian archives to provide the first detailed study of Australian and Chinese interaction with the British Empire in the long nineteenth Read more …
It was pleasing to see such a significant number of ARC grants awarded in the history field when the round for projects commencing in 2017 was announced on 1 November 2016. We congratulate the following scholars and their teams. Please let us know if we have missed anyone – we’d love to hear about it. Discovery Read more …
Congratulations to AHA member Barbara Dawson on the publication of her book, which tells of the battle for land on the huge estate in the southern Monaro after the introduction of John Robertson’s Land Reform Acts in 1862. It examines the methods offered by the Acts to procure or defend the land, and follows the successes Read more …
Congratulations to AHA member Romain Fathi, who has been awarded one of the Solemn Prizes from Chancellery of Paris’ Universities. Each year, fifty Solemn Prizes are awarded to early career researchers on the basis of academic excellence and the contribution of a thesis to its discipline. Romain’s was granted for his PhD thesis, ‘”Do not forget Read more …