The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
The AHA AGM will take place, as it usually does, during the annual conference. The meeting is open to all financial members of the AHA and we encourage you to attend. The Agenda will be circulated in early June, but please make note of the time and date. Your presence is welcome and needed! Time: Read more …
The third in the AHA ECR blog’s series features Dr Laura Rademaker, postdoctoral research fellow at Australian Catholic University and recent recipient of the Taylor and Francis Prize for the best article published in History Australia in 2016. Read it here.
CFP deadline: 15 August 2017 Guest editors Bart Ziino (Deakin University) and Romain Fathi (Flinders University) seek proposals for contributions to a special issue of ‘History Australia’. Demobilising from total war was as much a psychological as a military and economic process. The extraordinary mobilisation of people, finance, images, emotions and sentiments that occurred between Read more …
Congratulations to Stuart Macintyre, Jenny Gregory and Lenore Layman for the recent publication of their edited collection A Historian For All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton (Monash University Press). The contributors take the work of Geoffrey Bolton, one of the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians, as a departure point Read more …
The second interviewee in the AHA ECR blog’s series is Dr Effie Karageorgos, who teaches both history and academic skills at the University of Melbourne and Swinburne University. She offers further insights into research matters – and the trials and triumphs of ECR life. Read it here.
Hot on the heels of its successful Q&A series with established historians, the AHA ECR blog is now presenting a fascinating series of Q&As with emerging historians who are members of the AHA. The first features Dr Jayne Persian, history lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland. Read it here.
Congratulations to Patricia O’Brien for the publication of her new book, a biography of Ta’isi O. F. Nelson, a leading Sāmoan businessman who was blamed for instigating Sāmoa’s long-running non-violent campaign for justice (the Mau) that challenged New Zealand, Britain and the newly minted powers of the League of Nations between the wars. Using many new Read more …
Laura Rademaker has won the inaugural Taylor and Francis Prize, awarded for the best article published in History Australia each year. Her winning article, ‘Only Cuppa Tea Christians’: Colonisation, Authentic Indigeneity and the Missionary Linguist’ appeared in History Australia, 13:2, pp. 228–42. As the judges wrote, the article ‘provides a nuanced understanding of the changing Read more …
Jatinder Mann’s ‘Canadian Book Tour’ for The Search for a New National Identity: The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s (Peter Lang, 2016) is kicking off on 1 June 2017. Further information.
The AHA was saddened by news of the death of historian Hugh Anderson. An obituary highlighting his many and varied achievements, written by his son Warwick Anderson and Frank Bongiorno, both AHA members, can highlighting can be found here.