NCB News
09
Sep
2024
Dr Shauna Bostock wins NSW Premier's History Award
On Friday 6 September the winners of the NSW Premier's History Awards were announced at the State Library of New South Wales. We were ...
29
Aug
2024
The ADB on ABC Radio National
Earlier this month Professor Melanie Nolan, director of the NCB and general editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), spoke...
05
Aug
2024
National Centre of Biography News, August 2024
In this issue of the newsletter, Dr Sam Furphy shows how we are using sound to create a multi-sensory experience in the ADB. Plus there are...
24
Jul
2024
Call for Papers: The Privilege of Trailblazing Workshop
Friday 28 March 2025
Australian National University
Women’s and gender historians have long focused on ‘firsts,’ documenting the stories...
16
Jul
2024
National Centre of Biography News, July 2024
In the July edition of the NCB newsletter, Dr Emily Gallagher shares her thoughts on the possibilities of drawing together children's...
09
Jul
2024
An extra-ordinary collaboration
The NCB's online and outreach manager, Dr Michelle Staff, has reviewed the ABC series Tony Armstrong's Extra-Ordinary Things and the...
09
Jul
2024
Keynote address & thesis prize for early career historian
The past week has been an extra exciting one for the NCB's research editor and children's historian Dr Emily Gallagher.
On Thursday 4...