Past NCB events
28
Mar
2024
Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled
Kate Fullagar will discuss the background, research, writing, and unusual methodology of her third monograph, Bennelong & Phillip (Simon & Schuster,...
29
Feb
2024
Subjects of Time: Australian lives at the fin de siècle
The fin de siècle c1890-1914 reflected a tension between movement and stasis, degeneration and progress. Historical actors caught between acting in the world...
30
Nov
2023
Kevin Windle: Alexander Zuzenko, the Communist International and the Workers’ Republic of Australia
Alexander Zuzenko, a sailor and veteran of the 1905 Russian revolution, arrived in Australia in 1911 and embarked upon a career of industrial and political...
26
Oct
2023
Katherine Sanders: F.O.V. Acheson, Judge of New Zealand’s Native Land Court 1919-43
F.O.V. Acheson, Judge of New Zealand’s Native Land Court 1919-43: Innovative Legal Judgments on Native Title and the Treaty of Waitangi
F.O.V. Acheson, a...
28
Sep
2023
Philip Payton - D.H. Lawrence and Cornwall: In Search of Utopia
This talk is based on my forthcoming biographical study D.H. Lawrence and Cornwall: In Search of Utopia, to be published shortly by University of Exeter Press...
24
Aug
2023
Alison Bashford: Writing a Family History of Evolution
An Intimate History of Evolution (Allen Lane, 2022) is a history of evolutionary ideas told through one family, the Huxleys. It is, at core, a double biography...
12
Aug
2023
Our stories: Biography Book Group - Our Mothers with Robbie Henderson & Louise Moran.
Robbie Henderson has worked as a teacher, a biochemist, a political activist and a feminist activist in Australia and the United Kingdom culminating in her...
04
Aug
2023
Parliamentary Library seminar: the art of writing political biographies
With a history that goes back to Plutarch, the political biography is an enduring genre and a favourite for those interested in political leadership but also...
27
Jul
2023
Monique Rooney - “Inky Comradeship:” Writing, Mutual Help and the Marriage of Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland
**PLEASE NOTE: THE WORKSHOP IS BEGINNING HALF AN HOUR EARLIER (10.30am AND ENDING AT NOON) DUE TO ANU INDUSTRIAL ACTION**
In a 1939 letter addressed to...
25
Jul
2023
Mélanie Méthot — Beyond the Scandals: Annie Holt and her Matrimonial Agency
The press coverage Holt’s Matrimonial Agency received; its extensive publicity budget combined with the numerous personal advertisements they published in...
