The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
The Ken Inglis Prize is awarded by the Editorial Board of the journal Australian Historical Studies and the publisher Routledge/Taylor & Francis, to the best paper presented by a postgraduate student at the Australian Historical Association annual conference. Congratulations to Henry Reese who has been awarded the Ken Inglis Prize for his paper ‘Protecting the National Soundscape: The Gramophone Industry Read more …
Congratulations to Greg Burgess for the publication of Refugees and the Promise of Asylum in Postwar France, 1945-1995 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). This book recounts France’s responses to refugees from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the end of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995. It questions whether France fulfilled the promise Read more …
Congratulations to Meredith Lake, whose work The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History has been awarded the 2019 CHASS Australia Prize for a book. Further information
Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century: They Did Not Come from Nowhere by Roy Hay Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century is being launched as a paperback. A special launch price is available. Further information
On behalf of the AHA Executive, Dr Romain Fathi and Dr Lyndon Megarrity conducted a survey on the experiences of casual academics in the History discipline regarding the nature of their employment, and its impact upon their career path and personal life. The initiative was designed to facilitate discussion about casualisation in the History discipline in the tertiary education sector, Read more …
Congratulations to Bettina Bradbury for the publication of Caroline’s Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga (NewSouth Books, 2019). Could a man use his will to force his widow and children to leave Australia and move to Ireland? This was the question that Caroline Kearney, an unknown emigrant from England, faced after her husband died in 1865. The history of the Kearney family Read more …
Congratulations to Peter Monteath for the November release of his new book Battle on 42nd Street: War in Crete and the Anzacs’ bloody last stand (NewSouth, 2019). A close study of a bayonet charge by Australians and New Zealanders against German mountain troops in May 1941 accompanies a reflection on the psychology of killing in modern war. Further information
Congratulations to Jane Lydon for the publication of Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2019). This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions, or what today we refer to as empathy, and how they created relations across empire. The book examines how empathy was Read more …
Carol Thomas Fellowship: Sally Young for project ‘Sworn to No Masters’ Ross Steele AM Fellowship: David Hansen for the project ‘Pictures in the Collections of the State Library of NSW’ Dr AM Hertzberg AO Fellowship: Ben Huf for the project ‘Colonial Liquidity’ CH Currey Fellowship: Rebecca Jones for the project ‘Drought, Flood, Heat and Dust’ Nancy Keesing Fellowship AM: Sophie Robinson for the project ‘Lesbian Sydney in the 1990s’ Australian Religious Read more …
Congratulations to Amanda Laugesen and Catherine Fisher for the publication of their edited book, Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific: Language, Trauma, Memory and Official Discourse (Palgrave, 2020). This book contributes to the project of understanding language in the context of war and conflict and includes chapters on three main themes: the impact of war and trauma on language, the language of war Read more …