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Dear Members Notice of AGM The Australian Historical Association, Annual General Meeting will take place Thursday 5 July 2018, Copland Theatre, Australian National University, ACT, 5.00pm-6.00pm Please find attached: Agenda AHA History Journal List (Vice President’s report) Minutes of AHA AGM 2017 All members welcome
In accordance with the Constitution of the Australian Historical Association, elections are held every two years for membership of the Association’s Executive Committee. The term of office for the incoming Executive will be from the date of the Annual General Meeting in 2018 to that of the Annual General Meeting in 2020. A thoughtful, hard Read more …
The AHA is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Weston Bate on Tuesday, at the age of 93. A popular and influential local and urban historian, his many books include A History of Brighton (1962), Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat (1978) and Essential but Unplanned: The Story of Melbourne’s Lanes (1994). Read more …
The AHA is deeply saddened by the death of Dr Tracey Banivanua-Mar, a brilliant scholar, teacher, colleague and friend. She will be greatly missed, but her inspiration will live on. Our heartfelt condolences to her children, her husband and all her family. Tracey’s funeral will be held at 11:30 am, Friday 25 August in the Read more …
The AHA’s Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship intended to assist early-career historians further their research in Australian history. It is available to all early career historians (within five years of the award of their PhD degree), whether academic, professional, or public historians working in museums, war memorials and other institutions. Funding of up Read more …
The Western Australian Government has merged the State Records Office (SRO) into the State Library of Western Australia from 1 July 2017, effectively ending the existence of the SRO as an independent agency. The Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) has protested against this change to the machinery of government, which was made without any proper process of Read more …
Warm congratulations to Ben Mountford, whose book Britain, China, & Colonial Australia has been awarded the 2017 Prue Torney Fellows’ Prize – an annual award for a book of history or biography about Australians who individually or collectively have contributed to an understanding of Asia or Australian perceptions of Asia.
Congratulations to Miranda Francis (PhD candidate, La Trobe University) and her project ‘Why did Mrs ‘Smith’ send a submission to the Royal Commission on Human Relationships? Family life in 1970s Australia’ and Holly Taylor (PhD candidate, University of Washington) with her project ‘Preserving Places That Matter: The Origins of Social Value in Australian Heritage Conservation’, Read more …
2018 is a big year for AHA prizes, with the full suite of biennial prizes and annual prizes on offer. All are now open. For full terms and conditions for each prize, consult the AHA website. The Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship intended to assist early-career historians further their research in Australian history. Read more …
The two annual AHA prizes were announced at the conference dinner on Thursday 6 July 2017. Congratulations to James Findlay, who won the 2017 Jill Roe Prize for an unpublished history essay by a postgraduate student with his ‘Cinematic Landscapes, Dark Tourism and the Ghosts of Port Arthur’ (full citation here) and to Benjamin Mountford whose Read more …