The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
Due to technical issues, some members were unable to receive the 3 December AHA newsletter. Unfortunately it seems we are unable to resend the newsletter, but should be able to wait out the issue to be resolved, and should be able to send the newsletter next week. All items from this week’s newsletter will be Read more …
History Australia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association. The current editors of HA, Michelle Arrow, Leigh Boucher and Kate Fullagar, will be completing their term on 31 December 2021. The Executive welcomes expressions of interest from candidates located in any Australian university or universities, and engaged in any variety of history, to be received Read more …
The AHA President (Melanie Oppenheimer) has written to AHA members to encourage membership renewal. If you missed this letter, you can view it here.
The AHA’s new Early Career Researcher representatives – Chelsea Barnett, Joel Barnes, and Anna Temby – have published a new entry on the AHA ECR blog introducing themselves. They encourage any ECRs with concerns to reach out to them at the new centralised ECRs email address, aha.ecr@gmail.com. Further information
A special resolution to change the following AHA membership category definitions was passed at the 2020 AHA AGM: 1. A Concession member will henceforth be defined as a person who is in a fixed term position (1 year’s duration or under) OR retired. The membership fee for this category will be fixed at $100 per Read more …
Congratulations to Wendy Michaels who was awarded an Order of Australia Medal – OAM – General Division in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for service to women, and to the dramatic arts. Further information
Oral History Australia is delighted to announce the following winners of the inaugural Oral History Australia Awards. ORAL HISTORY AUSTRALIA BOOK AWARD 2019: Peg Fraser, Black Saturday: not the end of the story (Monash University Publishing, 2018)The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One Read more …
Congratulations to Marion Stell and Heather Reid for the publication of Women in Boots: Football and Feminism in the 1970s (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020). The work adds the football field to sites of protest and empowerment for individual women in the 1970s. It follows the Australian and New Zealand national players – schoolgirls, factory workers, university graduates and professionals – Read more …
In recognition of the widespread disruptions caused by the Corona virus, the AHA is extending the due date for the Jill Roe Prize. Applications are now due Friday 17th April 2020. The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually by the AHA for the best unpublished article-length work of historical research in any area of historical Read more …
Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century: They Did Not Come from Nowhere by Roy Hay Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century is being launched as a paperback. A special launch price is available. Further information