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AHA members Tamson Pietsch and Anna Clark have launched History Lab, a new investigative history podcast made in collaboration by the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney. Listen online here.
Congratulations to Sam Hutchinson on the publication of his new book, which explores how public commentary framed Australian involvement in the Waikato War (1863-64), the Sudan crisis (1885), and the South African War (1899-1902), a succession of conflicts that reverberated around the British Empire and which the newspaper press reported at length. In doing so, the Read more …
Congratulations to Peter Hempenstall on the publication of his new book, which explores how New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman ignited a ferocious controversy in 1983 when he denounced the research of Margaret Mead, a world-famous public intellectual who had died five years earlier. Freeman’s claims caught the attention of popular media, converging with other vigorous cultural Read more …
Applications for the following AHA awards close on 31 January 2018. Don’t miss out! Kay Daniel Award for outstanding original research with a bearing on Australian convict history and heritage. Magarey Medal (with ASAL) for the best published biography on an Australian subject by a female author. Serle Award for the best postgraduate thesis in Read more …