The Honest History website has new material, as advised in Honest History’s Newsletter No. 45. There are reviews of Australian Lives, edited by Anisa Puri and Alistair Thomson, Ashton’s Hotel, Rhonnda Harris’s edition of the diaries of the first governor of the Adelaide Gaol, and The Vimy Trap, by Canadian authors, Ian McKay and Jamie Swift. (‘Vimyism’ in Read more …
Wakefield Press are publishing a revised edition of Jill Roe’s history of Theosophy in Australia, Beyond Belief, originally published in 1986 in a limited edition by New South Wales University Press and out of print for many years. The new edition will make this classic of Australian history available to a new generation of readers, Read more …
Get to know the AHA’s amazing and hardworking president, Professor Lynette Russell, here in this month’s Q&A, where she talks about how and why she is inspired to write history and her vision for the Australian historical association as well as the future of the discipline. In the Emerging Historian series, meet Claire Wright, an economic Read more …
Chelsea Barnett, Isobelle Barrett Meyering, James Keating and Sophie Robinson organised the Australian Women’s History Network conference, ‘Symbiotic Histories’, held on 5 July 2017 in conjunction with the Australian Historical Association conference. A month on, they reflect on lessons learned along the way. Further information.
Phillipa McGuinness, executive publisher at NewSouth Publishing, kicks off the AHA ECR blog’s new ‘how to’ series with some fantastic tips on what and what not to do when writing a book proposal. She explains what will catch the eye of a publisher, reminds us to read widely and encourages historians to be imaginative and bold. Read Read more …
Barry Jones on conscription 1916–17; new edition of Honest History’s Alternative Guide to the Australian War Memorial (first edition downloaded more than 2000 times); the Commonwealth’s secret war on Laos in the 1960s; teaching Indigenous archaelogy; reviews of Griffith Review 56 Millennials Strike Back, Sue Rosen’s Scorched Earth, Bruce Munday’s Those Wild Rabbits; Centenary Watch, including opaque remarks in Senate Read more …
In the latest in the Emerging Historians series, meet Dr Benjamin T. Jones, whose PhD on responsible government in colonial Canada and Australia in the mid-nineteenth century was published in 2014 and who is now an Australian Research Council Fellow (DECRA) in the School of History at the Australian National University. Read about his research Read more …
In the latest in the Emerging Historians series, meet Dr Pete Minard, an environmental historian who completed a PhD in 2014 and has since undertaken various academic and non-academic roles and co-founded a public history company. Read it here.
Read the latest post in the AWHN blog, ‘Indigenous Activism and the 1967 Referendum: Remembering Joyce Clague’, here.
Ann McGrath, Professor of History and Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University, is the lates subject of the ECR blog’s Q&A series. In this inspiring interview, she discusses why she writes history and who she writes it for, reflects on the changes she has observed in Australian History over her Read more …