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19
Sep
2016
24 November 1859 – First Publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species
2009 was unofficially declared the year of Charles Darwin. It marked both the bicentenary of his birth and the sesquicentenary of the...
12
Sep
2016
ANU Historian Professor Anne McGrath has won the 2016 NSW Premier’s History Prize
ANU historian, Professor Ann McGrath, has won a 2016 NSW Premier's History prize for her book, llicit Love: Interracial sex and marriage in...
02
Sep
2016
Call for Papers: How the Personal Became Political
How the Personal Became Political: Re-assessing Australia's Revolutions in Gender and Sexuality in the 1970's
An interdisciplinary two...
25
Aug
2016
Woodstock: Three days of peace and music, Malcolm Allbrook
If everyone who had claimed to have been at Woodstock on the week-end of August 15-17 1969, had actually been there, attendance would have...
22
Aug
2016
ANU Historians Shortlisted for the 2016 NSW Premier’s History Awards
Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno and Professor Ann McGrath were shortlisted for the 2016 NSW Premier's History awards...
22
Aug
2016
ANU students in the Highly Commended category for History in the International Undergraduate Awards program
Two of our past and current Honours students, Geraldine Fela and Emily Gallagher, have been placed in the Highly Commended category for...
22
Aug
2016
Earle Page and Robert Menzies – How to be Remembered for the Wrong Reason
On 13 September 1939, Earle Page resigned as leader of the federal parliamentary Country Party, ending an 18 year reign. This was the...