The House of Blue Glass: A life of Penelope Lucas, by Alan Atkinson
Book launch
Join award-winning historian Alan Atkinson in conversation with Catherine Gay about his latest book The House of Blue Glass: A life of Penelope Lucas (NewSouth, 2026).Following on from his acclaimed joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, in his latest work Alan pieces together the life of…
Relationality, Movement and Transnationality in Biographies across PNG and Australia: Stories through Nahau and Wesley Rooney
Seminar
It seems straightforward: for years now, I’ve been saying that I’m working on Papua New Guinean politician Nahau Rooney’s biography. But really, I’ve been trying to make sense of telling a story that moves across epistemic spheres and transnationally across PNG and Australia. I experience movement…
The Stained Man: A Crime, a Scandal, and the Making of a Nation, by Patrick Mullins
Book launch
The Stained Man: A Crime, a Scandal, and the Making of a Nation (Scribe, 2026) tells the story of Richard 'Dick' Meagher, the Sydney solicitor who incited a campaign to free a man he knew was guilty of attempted murder and subsequently lost it all, including his reputation and ability to…
Musquito: The real story of a legendary colonial warrior, by Naomi Parry Duncan
Book launch
In her new book Musquito: The real story of a legendary colonial warrior, historian Naomi Parry Duncan wades through misinformation and myth to tell the story of one of the best-known First Nations resistance warriors of the early colonial period. In the process she uncovers and grapples with the…