‘History Lab’
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.
Month: December 2017
‘Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press: Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863–1902’
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 …
‘Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology’
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 …
AHA Awards closing Wednesday 31 January 2018
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 …
ERC blog update: Round Up 2017
As our hardworking ERC representatives prepare to take a break from their blog until February, the final post of the year includes a round up of the year’s most read pieces and some summer reading suggestions. Read it here.
AHA-Copyright Agency Early Career Mentorships
The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the inaugural AHA-Copyright Agency Early Career Mentorship. It was a very competitive field and the judges were most impressed with the high quality of the topics and the enthusiastic support of proposed mentors and institutions. We are delighted to announce the successful applicants and look Read more …
Vale Ken Inglis (1929–2017)
With the death on 1 December of Ken Inglis, Australia lost one of its most original historians and our profession one of its most admired members. On 12 December a large gathering of family and friends celebrated his life in tributes, memories, poetry and song at Queen’s College, University of Melbourne, where he began his Read more …
Honest History update
New material at includes an English translation by John Moses of a German review of Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers, a review by Derek Abbott of Roland Perry’s book on Generals Monash and Chauvel, a review by Amanda Laugesen of a book about Australian aphorisms, a posthumously republished article by Geoffrey Bolton on the Max Gluckman Affair Read more …
AHA2018: submit your abstract now
The conference organising committee is pleased to announce that online abstract submissions are now open. We are also pleased to confirm that three AHA affiliated associations – the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM), the Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH), and the Religious History Association (RHA) – will convene streams during the conference. Additionally, there will be formally curated streams Read more …
Vale Ken Inglis
The AHA is deeply saddened by the death of distinguished Australian historian and long-time AHA member Emeritus Professor Ken Inglis on 1 December 2017. The quality of his scholarship is evident his many influential works on a wide range of social and cultural issues of Australia’s history, including Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape and Read more …