The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
ARC Laureate Fellow Mark Finnane’s research team at ‘The Prosecution Project’, with AHA members Amanda Kaladelfos, Alana Piper, Lisa Durnian and Robyn Blewer, and Griffith University’s media team have created an educational video on researching criminal trials in Australia. You can find the video on their website. With the help of many volunteers, the project Read more …
AHA member Kerry King is the 2015 recipient of the Margaret Medcalf Award for her PhD thesis ‘A lesser species of homicide – manslaughter, negligent and dangerous driving causing death: the prosecution of drivers in Western Australia, 1946-2011’. This annual award acknowledges excellence in research and referencing. In presenting the Award, Culture and Arts Minister Read more …
Lyn Stewart has followed up her presentation at the 2014 AHA conference with the forthcoming publication of her book in March 2015. Blood Revenge: Murder on the Hawkesbury 1799 (Rosenberg Publishing) examines the 1799 trial of five white men found guilty of killing two Aborigines and answers the disturbing question of why they were never Read more …