The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
Congratulations to Katrina Dernelley for winning the 2020 Ken Inglis Prize for her paper, “’A Hideous Stigma on the Character of the Colony’: Gender, Class and Cruelty in the Goldfields Home”. In the absence of the AHA conference this year the prize was awarded to the best paper submitted by a postgraduate student intending to Read more …
AHA members and recipients of the Allan Martin Award Peter Hobbins (2018) and Ruth Morgan (2016)have described their experiences of the Award in a new blog entry on the AHA ECR blog which can be viewed here. Peter writes “winning the Allan Martin Award helped change my practice as a historian in two major ways”, Read more …
The ARC has released the outcomes for Special Research Initiative for Australian Society, History and Culture for 2020. Congratulations to all AHA members who were successful in their applications, including Richard Broome, Andrea Gaynor, Vanessa Hearman, Warwick Anderson, Jane Haggis, Penelope Edmonds, Margaret Allen, Michelle Arrow, Catherine Kevin, Ann Curthoys, Zora Simic, Katherine Ellinghaus, Lynette Read more …
Congratulations to James Keating for the publication of Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880–1914 (Manchester University Press, 2020). This book seeks to chart the common trajectory of colonial suffrage campaigns, and argues for a more contingent history of international organising that challenges celebratory accounts of fin-de-siècle global connection. Further Read more …
Congratulations to those AHA members who received prizes and commendations at the Australian Society of Archivists’ recent Mander Jones Awards ceremony. Congratulations to Terry Kass for winning Category 3 for the State Archives NSW finding aid Unlocking land: A guide to Crown Land Records held at State Archives NSW. Congratulations to Narrelle Morris for winning Read more …