Observing Justice?: Protectors of Aborigines in Early Colonial Australasia
Webinar/Online
Historians of Aboriginal protection as a mode of colonial governance have emphasised both its global origins and its varied local practices. Between 1838 and 1842 the British government appointed at least sixteen Protectors of Aborigines across four Australasian colonies. Their contrasting careers…
Works that Shaped the World: Sarah Bellamy (1770-1843) and Women Transported to Botany Bay
Webinar/Online
Born in 1770, 250 years ago, Sarah Bellamy was one of the longest lived first fleeters by the time of her death in 1843. Owing to the dearth of records, hers and the lives of other women transported from England to arrive in Botany Bay in 1788 have been described as ‘unthinkable…
Sisters in Service: Lay Sisters in the Dominican Order, Eastern Australia 1867-2019
Seminar
Between 1867 and 1958 eighty women took up the lay sister housekeeper position in Dominican convents throughout Eastern Australia. They were the helpmeets of the teaching sisters, known as choir sisters, who without the domestic work of the lay sisters could not have maintained their convents…
Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964
Workshop
This seminar will address the story of Charmian Clift and George Johnston, a power couple of Australian literature in the mid-20th century, who are the focus of the book Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964 (Monash University Publishing, 2018). Clift was a…
Cassandra Pybus: Truganini
Workshop
Australian author and historian Cassandra Pybus will discuss her soon-to-be published book Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse. The Indigenous museum curator, Gaye Sculthorpe, has described the book as giving this much misunderstood and misrepresented figure ‘the proper attention she…
Launch: Australian Journal of Biography and History, No. 2, 2019
Book launch
The National Centre of Biography, at the ANU, in association with the Canberra and District Historical Society warmly invites you to celebrate the publication of the Australian Journal of Biography and History: No. 2, 2019. The journal will be launched by the Hon. Arthur…
HDR Masterclass by Lawrence Goldman: William Morris and Edward Bellamy
Workshop
William Morris and Edward Bellamy: Contrasting late-Victorian visions of the socialist future William Morris and Edward Bellamy were the authors of the great 19th century utopian novels: News from Nowhere (Morris) and Looking Backward (Bellamy). Lawrence Goldman has…