Warm congratulations to AHA members Frank Bongiorno, Nicholas Brown, Klaus Neumann and Melanie Oppenheimer, all of whom have been have been elected as Fellows to the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia. This is an outstanding achievement and well deserved recognition of their distinguished contributions to the history discipline. Further information.
In each episode of Shooting the Past (Radio National, Friday 1:30 pm, repeated Sunday 1:30), Clare Wright starts her exploration of a historical event or era with a single photograph. Episodes can be downloaded from the Radio National website. Further information.
The Australian Women’s History Network blog is running a fascinating and timely series on marriage equality. Read about Marriage in Homosexual Histories, LGBTI Military Service Members and their Partners and Legalising History in the Marriage Equality Debate.
Dr Lyndon Megarrity is a historian currently based in Townsville who has taught history and political science at tertiary level over a number of years. He offers some great advice for those trying to navigate the world of history… read it here.
On Thursday 19 October 2017, 6:00 to 7.30pm, Lynette Russell, President of the AHA and Director, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University will present the 2nd Bicentennial Australian History Lecture (hosted by the Department of History, the University of Sydney) in the General Lecture Theatre, The Quadrangle, University of Sydney. As commonly presented, Australia’s past seems Read more …
The AHA is deeply saddened by the death of Emeritus Professor Bruce Mansfield AM and offers condolences to his family. Influential in both Australian history and Early Modern European history, Bruce Mansfield held the first history chair at Macquarie University from 1965 and served as Vice-Chancellor (Academic) of that university from 1976 to 1985. He Read more …
Gemmia completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 2010 earlier this year and is currently working two jobs, full time as a cultural heritage consultant at Australian Heritage Specialists, and as a casual research assistant at UQ. Read about her experiences as an emerging historian here.
Get a headstart on reading the next issue of History Australia by accessing articles as they come online. Newly uploaded over the past week are Jill Julius Matthews, ‘My Life in History: Good and Mad Women Redux’; Joan Beaumont, ‘Soldier Settlement Revisited’and a number of great book reviews. Members, log in to the AHA site, Read more …
Congratulations to James Bennett and Kate Ariotti for the publication of this edited collection, which was launched at the Newcastle conference by Professor Stuart Macintyre. This book contributes to the global turn in First World War studies by exploring Australians’ engagements with the conflict across varied boundaries and by situating Australian voices and perspectives within Read more …
Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Premier of NSW’s History Awards, which were announced on Friday 1 September. We are proud that these include the following AHA members: Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt and Dean Aszkielowicz, Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War (Columbia University Press) for the Read more …