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 …
The third in the AHA ECR blog’s series features Dr Laura Rademaker, postdoctoral research fellow at Australian Catholic University and recent recipient of the Taylor and Francis Prize for the best article published in History Australia in 2016. Read it here.
The second interviewee in the AHA ECR blog’s series is Dr Effie Karageorgos, who teaches both history and academic skills at the University of Melbourne and Swinburne University. She offers further insights into research matters – and the trials and triumphs of ECR life. Read it here.
Hot on the heels of its successful Q&A series with established historians, the AHA ECR blog is now presenting a fascinating series of Q&As with emerging historians who are members of the AHA. The first features Dr Jayne Persian, history lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland. Read it here.
Contributions to this new blog explore contemporary histories and history-making. So far, contributors include Helen Gardner, David Lowe, Filip Slaveski, Mathew Turner, Carolyn Holbrook, Alyson Miller, Cassandra Atherton and Klaus Neumann. Contributions are welcome.