The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
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 delighted to announce that Kate Fullagar, Michelle Arrow and Leigh Boucher from Macquarie University have been appointed as the incoming editors of History Australia. They will take up this role in January 2019.
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 …
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At the September meeting of the AHA’s Executive Committee, held on Friday 9 September, the following motion was passed with a clear majority: ‘That after considering the submissions received from AHA members in response to the paper “Ranking History Journals for Australian Universities”, the Executive is no longer committed to developing a ranking of History Read more …
Congratulations to AHA members shortlisted for the 2016 NSW Premier’s History Awards, in the following categories: Australian History Prize: Frank Bongiorno, The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia Alison Holland, Just Relations: The Story of Mary Bennett’s Crusade for Aboriginal Rights Stuart Macintyre, Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s General History Prize: Read more …
Online registrations for AHA 2016: From Boom To Bust are now open through Eventbrite. You can also find a link to the registrations from the conference website. The conference is being held in central Ballarat: at Federation University Australia’s SMB and Camp Street campuses, and at the Ballarat Mechanics’ Institute. These venues are all within Read more …