The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
Congratulations to Professor Lyndall Ryan who has been awarded the 2018 Annual History Citation in recognition of her research and teaching in women’s and Indigenous History and service to the profession in the 2018 History Council New South Wales Awards: Further information.
Congratulations to Shaunnagh Dorsett (UTS) for her book Juridical Encounters: Maori and the Colonial Courts 1840-1852 (Auckland UP) and Jane McCabe (Otago) for her book Race, Tea and Colonial Settlement (Bloomsbury) who have been jointly awarded New Zealand’s prestigious Ian Wards Prize for 2018. This prize recognises an outstanding piece of published NZ historical writing that demonstrates either Read more …
Congratulations to Peter Prince who has won the Deen De Bortoli award in applied history, awarded by the History Council NSW, for a history article that contributes to current policy, for his article on the High Court and the expulsion of Australian Islanders published in law & history vol.5:1 2018 Further information.
AHA members may be interested in contributing to the fundraising drive being conducted to fund a series of scholarships in the name of the late Associate Professor Tracey Banivanua Mar. The Tracey Banivanua Mar Scholarship Endowment has been created by La Trobe University in consultation with Tracey’s husband, friends and family in order to best reflect Read more …
Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards, particularly AHA members: Christina Twomey, awarded the Australian History Prize for her book The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia, and Paul Irish, awarded the New South Wales Community and Regional History Prize for Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney. Further information.
Congratulations to Professor Shurlee Lesley SWAIN, For significant service to education, particularly through comparative social history, as an academic, author, and researcher, and to the community. Professor David Robert WALKER, For significant service to education as an academic in the field of Australian studies, and to international relations. Biographies noting their major achievements: https://tinyurl.com/y9mq7ql4 Read more …
The History Council of Victoria, the peak body for history in Victoria, is launching a Friends program. For the first time, this gives everyone the chance to support our work to advocate for history and to educate Victorians about the value of history. The official launch of the Friends of the History Council of Victoria Read more …
Congratulations to Lisa Ford (UNSW Sydney) and David Andrew Roberts (UNE Armidale), who have been appointed the new editors of Australian Historical Studies, from 2018 to 2020. They succeed Kate Darian-Smith and Penelope Edmonds.
Congratulations to Lucas Jordan on the the publication of his new book. It features diary excerpts and photographs from the men involved, to track stealth raids and their evolution as a distinctly Australian phenomenon, arguing that bush skills and the bush ‘ethos’ central to Australian society was the foundation of such raids. Further information.
The AHA is thrilled to offer its warm congratulations to Professor Ann McGrath (Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at ANU) who received two well-deserved acknowledgements of her significant contribution to the history profession in Australia and influential scholarly work. On 5 June 2017 she was awarded the prestigious Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship for her Read more …