The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
The Institute of Public Affairs recently published a report bemoaning the types of courses that are now taught in university History Departments. It feels that the History curriculum has been hijacked by “identity politics” and that too much attention is given to the study of race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity – generally from a critical Read more …
The AHA is delighted to announce a new award for six Early Career Researchers in history. This award supports Early Career Researcher historians to develop their professional skills. Specifically, it will link Early Career Researchers with senior historians who will mentor them in the development of new and innovative works of historical scholarship, in the Read more …
Congratulations to Jeannine Baker, who has been awarded the biennial Ferguson Prize for the best article published in Labour History on an interwar theme/topic, for ‘Australian Women Journalists and the “Pretence of Equality”’, Labour History, no. 108, May 2015.
Claire Higgins completed her DPhil in History in January 2014 at the University of Oxford. She is now now a Senior Research Associate at the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW. Read about her experience as an emerging historian here.
‘My Marvellous Melbourne’ is a new podcast produced by staff and students affiliated with the Melbourne History Workshop in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, under the direction of Professor Andrew May. Segments combine stories, interviews and personal reflections on the social history of the city and suburbs, as well as new Read more …
In this entry, Dr Douglas Wilkie talks about his love of solving history puzzles and the difference between writing as a freelance and academic historian. Read it here.
Hannah Forsyth is Lecturer in History and ARC DECRA Fellow at ACU in Sydney. Find out what book changed her life here.
The History Council of Victoria, an AHA affiliate, is launching a Friends program. For the first time, this gives everyone the chance to support their work to advocate for history and to educate Victorians about the value of history. The official launch of the Friends of the History Council of Victoria will be in Melbourne Read more …
AHA affiliate Honest History has just posted new material on a 1967 Vietnam War protest on a surfboard, the marriage equality debate and Australian progressivism, the stodgy and unimaginative program of Armistice Centenary grants, Carmen Lawrence’s 2006 book Fear and Politics and its continuing relevance, and the FBI’s harassment of Australian historian Les Jauncey. There are reviews Read more …
Congratulations to John Luttrell on the publication of his biography of Cardinal Gilroy, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1940 to 1971. The book will be launched by Archbishop Anthony Fisher on Thursday 26 October 2017 (see Events for details). Further information.